From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Sagar Borikar <sagar_borikar@pmc-sierra.com>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nscott@aconex.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Xfs Access to block zero exception and system crash
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:03:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <486C4F89.9030009@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <486B6062.6040201@pmc-sierra.com>
Sagar Borikar wrote:
>
> Dave Chinner wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 04:13:11PM +1000, Nathan Scott wrote:
>>> You can always try the reverse - replace fs/xfs from your mips build
>>> tree with the one from the current/a recent kernel. Theres very few
>>> changes in the surrounding kernel code that xfs needs.
>>>
>> Eric should be able to comment on the pitfalls in doing this having
>> tried to backport a 2.6.25 fs/xfs to a 2.6.18 RHEL kernel. Eric -
>> any comments?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Dave.
>>
> Eric, Could you please let me know about bits and pieces that we need to
> remember while back porting xfs to 2.6.18?
> If you share patches which takes care of it, that would be great.
http://sandeen.net/rhel5_xfs/xfs-2.6.25-for-rhel5-testing.tar.bz2
should be pretty close. It was quick 'n' dirty and it has some warts
but would give an idea of what backporting was done (see patches/ and
the associated quilt series; quilt push -a to apply them all)
-Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-03 4:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-24 7:03 Xfs Access to block zero exception and system crash Sagar Borikar
2008-06-25 6:48 ` Sagar Borikar
2008-06-25 8:49 ` Dave Chinner
2008-06-26 6:46 ` Sagar Borikar
2008-06-26 7:02 ` Dave Chinner
2008-06-27 10:13 ` Sagar Borikar
2008-06-27 10:25 ` Sagar Borikar
2008-06-28 0:05 ` Dave Chinner
2008-06-28 16:47 ` Sagar Borikar
2008-06-29 21:56 ` Dave Chinner
2008-06-30 3:37 ` Sagar Borikar
[not found] ` <20080630034112.055CF18904C4@bby1mta01.pmc-sierra.bc.ca>
2008-06-30 6:07 ` Sagar Borikar
2008-06-30 10:24 ` Sagar Borikar
2008-07-01 6:44 ` Dave Chinner
2008-07-02 4:18 ` Sagar Borikar
2008-07-02 5:13 ` Dave Chinner
2008-07-02 5:35 ` Sagar Borikar
2008-07-02 6:13 ` Nathan Scott
2008-07-02 6:56 ` Dave Chinner
2008-07-02 11:02 ` Sagar Borikar
2008-07-03 4:03 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2008-07-03 5:14 ` Sagar Borikar
2008-07-03 15:02 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-07-04 10:18 ` Sagar Borikar
2008-07-04 12:27 ` Dave Chinner
2008-07-04 17:30 ` Sagar Borikar
2008-07-04 17:35 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-07-04 17:51 ` Sagar Borikar
2008-07-05 16:25 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-07-06 17:24 ` Sagar Borikar
2008-07-06 19:07 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-07-07 3:02 ` Sagar Borikar
2008-07-07 3:04 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-07-07 3:07 ` Sagar Borikar
2008-07-07 3:11 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-07-07 3:17 ` Sagar Borikar
2008-07-07 3:22 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-07-07 3:42 ` Sagar Borikar
[not found] ` <487191C2.6090803@sandeen .net>
[not found] ` <4871947D.2090701@pmc-sierr a.com>
2008-07-07 3:47 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-07-07 3:58 ` Sagar Borikar
2008-07-07 5:19 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-07-07 5:58 ` Sagar Borikar
2008-07-06 4:19 ` Dave Chinner
2008-07-04 15:33 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-06-28 0:02 ` Dave Chinner
[not found] <4872E0BC.6070400@pmc-sierra.com>
[not found] ` <4872E33E.3090107@sandeen.net>
2008-07-08 5:03 ` Sagar Borikar
2008-07-09 16:57 ` Sagar Borikar
2008-07-10 5:12 ` Sagar Borikar
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