Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751168AbWE2Eht (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2006 00:37:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751169AbWE2Eht (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2006 00:37:49 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.231]:5755 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751168AbWE2Ehs convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2006 00:37:48 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ie5vMAyrWdm4fcoN79AaeXjBMcxQkwCxONdwyGGmGVHtXVwtqx4x3oBqvzxaNoLGBpPyysVwf7PQtP6H+yBUgClwNUsyFdSpZV/GZw6KSfN2AZDoEIlLtKj221y2yHsNmv2xhTmjNNjEwO2tjalpR8Dvgqe9uxt/5/JETS9YHYE= Message-ID: <9a8748490605282137g24c4eb7awb475318bad7e63b1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 06:37:48 +0200 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Haar_J=E1nos?=" Subject: Re: How to send a break? - dump from frozen 64bit linux Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <01d801c6827c$fba04ca0$1800a8c0@dcccs> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <01b701c6818d$4bcd37b0$1800a8c0@dcccs> <20060527234350.GA13881@voodoo.jdc.home> <004501c68225$00add170$1800a8c0@dcccs> <9a8748490605280917l73f5751cmf40674fc22726c43@mail.gmail.com> <01d801c6827c$fba04ca0$1800a8c0@dcccs> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1447 Lines: 40 On 28/05/06, Haar J?nos wrote: [snip] > I can only use swap _file_ in this config, and swapping into file is > relatively slow. Not so. With a 2.4.x kernel swap files were slower than swap partitions, but with the 2.6 kernel a swap file is just as fast as a swap partition. [snip] > > > > 2) You should try the latest stable kernel. Currently that's 2.6.16.18 > > (http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.16.18.tar.bz2). > > There have been lots of fixes added since 2.6.15.x and perhaps you are > > lucky that whatever is giving you trouble has already been fixed in > > that kernel. > > Hmm. > Last time, when i try the 2.6.16.x, i have lost close to 4000 users home, > and documents on XFS filesystem! > (a lot of directory have renamed to "/*" like this one: "/ost+found" in the > root.) > I don't want to try it again! :-) > That sounds like a pretty serious bug. Are you sure it was caused by the kernel? Did you report the bug to LKML & the XFS maintainers so it can get fixed? -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/