On Mon December 29 2003 12:02 pm, Greg Freemyer wrote:
I have a couple of 8.2 servers that I exclusively use to run Samba.
I need to upgrade to a newer kernel, and I'm wondering if it is safe to just upgrade to the latest 9.0 kernel, or if I need to upgrade the full distribution.
Background:
Recently I have had a couple of kernel lockups. I'm not too concerned about that, but they in turn caused some file corruption on files that had been in use hours before, but not at the time of the lockup.
I've done research and this is a problem with XFS 1.2, which is what I am using on those servers. (Included with the 8.2 kernel.)
XFS 1.3 is supposed to have this issue resolved. ie. There was apparently a sync bug in XFS 1.2 that kept files from being flushed to disk on a regular basis. With 1.3 the disk cache is sync'd to disk every 30 seconds like it should have been all along.
The 9.0 kernel has XFS 1.3 (or 1.3.1) included.
Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer
Any reason why you can't just build a new kernel from www.kernel.org? 2.4.23 is now the latest. Running it here with xfs. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 12/29/03 12:21 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "If it doesn't feel good, don't do it."