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From: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
To: Manuel Reimer <Manuel.Spam@nurfuerspam.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is XFS trustworthy in the latest 2.6.16
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 20:10:25 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060808201025.A2536447@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eb9lp9$3h2$1@sea.gmane.org>; from Manuel.Spam@nurfuerspam.de on Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 11:34:10AM +0200

On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 11:34:10AM +0200, Manuel Reimer wrote:
> Nathan Scott schrieb:
> > On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:34:48AM +0200, Manuel Reimer wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> could someone please tell me if XFS is trustworthy in the latest 2.6.16? 
> >> There have been some bugs:
> >>
> >> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6380
> >> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6757
> > 
> > These are the same problem.  2.6.16 is unaffected.
> 
> But the bug has been filed for 2.6.16.4.

Indeed, once the corruption exists ondisk all kernels will detect it.
Read through the entire bug, many details come toward the end.

> Did you want to say, that the latest 2.6.16 is unaffected?

All 2.6.16's are unaffected.

> >> want a stable kernel and 2.6.16 seems to fit all my needs.
> > 
> > For XFS, its goodness.  2.6.18 will be good too, and 2.6.17.7+.
> 
> What exactly did you want to tell with this sentence. Sorry, but my 
> native language is german...

Sorry, I meant to say "theres nothing wrong with 2.6.16".

> Is it a good solution to stay on the 2.6.16 branch? Of course I could 

Yes, thats fine.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan

      reply	other threads:[~2006-08-08 10:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-08  7:34 Manuel Reimer
2006-08-08  8:50 ` Nathan Scott
2006-08-08  9:00   ` Jeffrey Hundstad
2006-08-08  9:34   ` Manuel Reimer
2006-08-08 10:10     ` Nathan Scott [this message]

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