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rachaef
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 Posted: Thu May 02, 2002 11:49 am Post subject: Patches in gentoo-sources-2.4.19-r1 conflicting with XFS? |
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Many of you will have probably received the following message from the gentoo-announce mailing list. Am I getting this right, is the XFS patch conflicting with some of the patches included in the kernel? If yes, is there a workaround? Would be a pity if I couldn't use my XFS based system with the preempt/low latency kernel.
rachaef
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Hi All,
I've just released a brand-new gentoo-sources kernel. Desktop users
will like this kernel because it is very very fast and include both the
lowlatency *and* preempt patches. Server people will like this kernel
because it contains a number of nice security-related patches like
grsecurity, freeswan (ipsec) and cryptoapi. Please note that this
kernel has no XFS in it. I was able to really enhance this kernel
because I didn't have the huge XFS patch to get in the way. A full
description of the patches included follows:
# INCLUDED:
# 2.4.19-pre7-ac2 (with a fix for an ACPI compile problem)
# grsecurity-1.9.4 (with a fix for NVIDIA compile problem)
# 2.4.19-pre7-low-latency
# htb2 (QoS support)
# preempt-kernel-rml-2.4.19-pre7-ac2-1.patch
# preempt-stats-rml-2.4.19-pre5-ac3-1.patch
# 1000 HZ patch
# from jp10 (http://www.infolinux.de/jp10):
# 41_twofish-2.4.3.bz2
# 50_crypto-patch-int-2.4.18.1.bz2
# 50_crypto-patch-int-2.4.18.1-1.bz2
# 51_loop-jari-2.4.16.0.bz2
# 90_freeswan-1.97.bz2
# from aa:
# 00_3.5G-address-space-4 (from Andrea Archangeli)
Best Regards,
--
Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
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klieber
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| Posted: Thu May 02, 2002 12:19 pm Post subject: Re: Patches in gentoo-sources-2.4.19-r1 conflicting with XFS |
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| rachaef wrote: | | Am I getting this right, is the XFS patch conflicting with some of the patches included in the kernel? If yes, is there a workaround? |
Yes, you're getting that right. Not sure if there's a work-around, but try searching the gentoo mailing list. There's been extensive discussion on the list about precisely this topic.
--kurt
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| Posted: Thu May 02, 2002 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks, I should have thought of searching the mailing list myself.
Well, I'm planning on reinstalling the whole system anyway, as I screwed a few things up, so I could just switch to ext3 for the time being. I guess on a desktop machine the advantages of xfs are worth being exchanged for the preempt and low latency patches.
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bob_t
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Location: ithaca, ny, usa
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| Posted: Thu May 02, 2002 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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I use XFS and I want to use the new kernel....I also don't want to reformat, as I have everything the way I like it now, and it is a time-consuming pain.
Has anyone had any success with a recovery disk like RIP that can convert between formats? Here's a readme for the latest:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery/rip-51.readme.txt
Why couldn't I just boot this and then run, e.g.
| Code: | | convertfs /dev/hdaX xfs ext3 |
or whatever? Or am I just being naive to think that something this simple would work? |
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klieber
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| Posted: Thu May 02, 2002 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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| bob_t wrote: | | Or am I just being naive to think that something this simple would work? |
All you really have to do is move the data off the partition you want to reformat, reformat that partition and move the data back. Modify /etc/fstab and you should be done. It's not the easiest thing in the world, but it certainly doesn't require you to recompile all your gentoo apps.
--kurt
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