[Pc_Support] Re: LUNA: SuSE 9.2 Reiserfs/NFS problems .... -- NFS exported ReiserFS = bad things

[Jason Boxman]

Bryan J. Smith said:
> On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 01:50 -0500, Jason Boxman wrote:
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>> Perhaps I could just apply those patches to my own kernel sources?
>
> Er, um, there's a lot of different considerations.  I wouldn't even
> attempt to tackle SuSE's kernel with them.

I meant a kernel.org kernel.

>> Would applying patches for SGI's current XFS releases for Linux help any?
>
> Virtually impossible.  SGI only maintains a full kernel in XFS' CVS.
> And I don't know how well it runs on different distros.

Sigh.

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> I have only trusted the past, official XFS 1.2.x and 1.3.x releases on
> RHL 7.3 and 9, respectively, when it comes to 2.4.

The XFS page[0] claims SP2 for SLES9 has been updated with the latest XFS
bug fixes and is dated for this year.  (I've never been a SuSE user myself.)

[0] http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/news.html