On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 23:41, Lee Braiden wrote: > Hi, > > Are there xfs and preempt patches around for benh's 2.4.23? I'd like to > upgrade, given some recent events :)
While I have no special thinking about XFS (this is not the case of everybody, see what Al Viro thinks about the implementation on a recent post to lkml), I strongly recomment NOT to use preempt on a machine if you want this machine to be stable ! The 2.4 version is definitely a no-no. 2.6 went through a bunch of infrastructure changes to do preempt "properly" (read: without adding races all over the place) and still, preempt is known in current 2.6 to still have problems, some generic, some PPC specific. Using it on 2.4 is asking for real big trouble. Ben.