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From: "Thomas Langås" <tlan@stud.ntnu.no>
To: Austin Gonyou <austin@digitalroadkill.net>
Cc: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 problems
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 00:55:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020719225507.GC14331@stud.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1027118177.7800.15.camel@UberGeek>

Austin Gonyou:
> Use SGI's XFS installer and move to XFS on those boxen. You will not be
> unhappy.

We're using reiserfs, and converting to XFS is out of the question,
sorry.

> Second suggestion, once you've installed a RH 7.3 XFS installed box,
> then go get 2.4.18-aa and recompile that and use it. 
> You will need to make a change to the scsi_scan.c file to add
> BLIST_LARGELUN support to which ever devices you're using. 

Why?  The vanilla kernel works fine with what we have in production,
but not with the new P4 Dual Xeon.

> (or use the 2.4.19-rc1-aa2 since it might be done already, assuming your
> using PV250's and up)

PV?  No, we're not using Dell's storage solutions, only their servers.


-- 
Thomas

  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-19 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-19 19:26 Linux Kernel 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 problems Thomas Langås
2002-07-19 21:04 ` Patrick Mansfield
2002-07-19 21:21   ` Thomas Langås
2002-07-19 21:26   ` Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
2002-07-19 21:44     ` Thomas Langås
2002-07-19 22:36   ` Austin Gonyou
2002-07-19 22:55     ` Thomas Langås [this message]
2002-07-25 12:40       ` Bill Davidsen
2002-07-21  2:46   ` Thomas Langås

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