Re: XFS internal error xfs_btree_check_lblock

[Mark Goodwin <markgw@sgi.com>]

Richard Ems wrote:
> Mark Goodwin wrote:
>> Some of the above might not refer directly to the final committed
>> patches but the thread URLs should be accurate. These are bug fixes
>> that go a long way back and really do need to be back-ported and
>> pushed out for the mentioned distros. There are probably other patches
>> not listed above that should be considered too.
>
> Hi Mark, thanks for the list and clarifications.
>
> But still some more questions ... who does the backporting for the
> distros? SGI or the distros themselves?

Generally the distros, except for SGI storage platforms and SLES where
SGI has a contractural support agreement with Novell.

> Is someone from Novell / SUSE / openSUSE reading here?

Andreas Gruenbacher is probably listening

> When can we *expect* to have these patches backported? In one month?
> Three months? More?

For SLES, within a week. For OpenSuSE presumeably the SLES folks will
follow-up with OpenSuSE, but I can't predict when. For Fedora, Eric
Sandeen.  For RHEL (on anything except SGI storage platforms), nobody
since XFS is not supported directly by Redhat. For all other distros
and server & NAS vendors, it's entirely up to their maintainers and
respective support organization - generally they track a release or
two behind kernel.org.

Cheers

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  Mark Goodwin                                  markgw@sgi.com
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