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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 22:31:26 +0200
From: Knut J Bjuland <knutjbj@online.no>
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To: Dave Alden <alden@math.ohio-state.edu>
Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Kernel oops with XFS and NFS
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Dave Alden wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 09:35:17PM +0200, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:
> > Are you absolutely sure your hardware isn't flaky?
> >
> > Just a wild shot in the dark...
>
> Of course not, one can never be absolutely sure.  But I'm almost
> absolutely sure.  :-)  The server is also a mail server and I tried
> running it for a few hours with just the mail partition being shared
> (which is EXT3) and had no problems.  Now that leaves the possibility
> of the RAID controller (the mail isn't on the RAID controller) being
> flakey, but I highly doubt it (It's a Mylex ExtremeRAID 2000).  I
> have a spare, I'll try swapping it in to see if that makes a difference.
>
> ...dave

Redhat updates it kernel with nfs fixes in kernel 2.4.18-5, to get xfs does
nor patch cleanly with 2.4.18-4 patch.