From: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
To: wichert@cistron.nl (Wichert Akkerman)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: XFS in the main kernel
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 09:29:22 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6047.1019518162@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "22 Apr 2002 18:55:20 +0200." <aa1f9o$519$1@picard.cistron.nl>
On 22 Apr 2002 18:55:20 +0200,
wichert@cistron.nl (Wichert Akkerman) wrote:
>In article <3CC427F4.12C40426@fnal.gov>,
>Dan Yocum <yocum@fnal.gov> wrote:
>>I know it's been discussed to death, but I am making a formal request to you
>>to include XFS in the main kernel. We (The Sloan Digital Sky Survey) and
>>many, many other groups here at Fermilab would be very happy to have this in
>>the main tree.
>
>Has XFS been proven to be completely stable
As much as any other filesystem. "There are no bugs in filesystem XYZ.
That just means that you have not looked hard enough." :) There is a
daily QA suite that XFS is run through.
>The reason I am asking is that XFS seems to be a fairly common
>factor for segfault bugreports in dpkg.
dpkg uses mmap? There was a bug in XFS and mmapped files where
incorrect blocks were flushed to disk under high load, but that was
fixed around January 30.
--
Not speaking for sgi.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-22 23:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-22 15:10 Dan Yocum
2002-04-21 15:29 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-04-22 16:55 ` Wichert Akkerman
2002-04-22 22:19 ` Matthias Andree
2002-04-22 22:47 ` Chris Mason
2002-04-22 23:29 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2002-04-22 23:44 ` Wichert Akkerman
2002-04-23 0:43 ` Luigi Genoni
[not found] <20020422234419.GQ2470@dstl.gov.uk>
2002-04-23 8:31 ` Tony Gale
2002-04-23 13:36 Martin Knoblauch
2002-04-23 14:30 ` Stephen Lord
2002-04-23 15:47 ` Martin Knoblauch
2002-04-23 21:37 ` J.A. Magallon
2002-04-23 9:23 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-04-24 9:32 ` Luigi Genoni
2002-04-23 15:47 ` Peter Wächtler
2002-04-23 15:55 ` Martin Knoblauch
2002-04-23 21:43 ` Luigi Genoni
2002-04-23 9:32 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-04-24 7:13 ` Martin Knoblauch
2002-04-24 9:02 ` Luigi Genoni
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