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Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 00:14:34 +0200
To: Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>, Robert Sander <gurubert-news@epigenomics.com>
From: Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: process hang with xfs 1.0.1 
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At 09:26 13-10-2001 -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
>The 2.4.3 kernel rpm in 1.0.1 is a modification of the redhat 7.1 kernel,
>the 2.4.5 kernel is a vanilla linux kernel. We are working on getting
>things going in the redhat 7.2 kernel (due out real soon now). This may
>offer a new package, I am not sure if we will be packaging things as we
>have done in the past yet though.

I have the system for another week before it needs to go into production. 
And then I have a week vacation to spain :-)
I can stress test and run QA on it if you want to. It's dual processor it 
has highmem and I can make it crash a lot ;-)

>The new mandrake (8.1) release also includes xfs, I cannot speak for
>their driver support as I have not looked and tend not to use much
>beyond the basics myself.

It supports aacraid as well as most other drivers found in the redhat kernels.

>Hopefully other people on the list can suggest other kernel versions which
>will work with your hardware.

The mandrake kernel should work fine. Fetch a tarbal of that specific 
release tree here.

http://iserv.nl/files/xfs/

Cheers

--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.