From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267728AbUG2QZp (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:25:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267481AbUG2QPC (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:15:02 -0400 Received: from dragnfire.mtl.istop.com ([66.11.160.179]:36078 "EHLO dsl.commfireservices.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268374AbUG2QF5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:05:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:09:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Zwane Mwaikambo To: Mika Bostrom Cc: Nathan Scott , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] let 4KSTACKS depend on EXPERIMENTAL and XFS on 4KSTACKS=n In-Reply-To: <20040729154224.GA3030@bostik.iki.fi> Message-ID: References: <20040720114418.GH21918@email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at> <40FD0A61.1040503@xfs.org> <40FD2E99.20707@mnsu.edu> <20040720195012.GN14733@fs.tum.de> <20040729060900.GA1946@frodo> <20040729154224.GA3030@bostik.iki.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Mika Bostrom wrote: > Now, the reason this can't be any kind of bugreport is clear: > 1) kernel is tainted > 2) VMWare's modules are not yet updated to cope with 2.6.7 kernel > > So until VMWare updates their product, I consider this a bug in their > modules. When they do, I intend to test 4k stacks again. If the hangs > continue, then I shall see with their support whether it can be tracked > to their code or not. > > But at least at the moment if you wish to use VMWare and XFS, using 4k > stacks is, in my experience, asking for trouble. Given that XFS and 4k stacks has known issues perhaps it isn't a fault of VMWare. I've been using VMWare 4 with 4K stacks running linux, netbsd and win2k on a system with a 30day uptime, i'm using ext3 on 2.6.7-rc3-mm2.