Dan Harris wrote:
I'm not sure how to figure out what version of XFS we're on.. but it's Linux kernel 2.6.24-24 x86_64 on Ubuntu Server 8.04.3. Postgres version 8.3

There's the kernel side support that matches your kernel, as well as the xfsprogs package. The latter is where a lot of distributions haven't kept up with upstream changes, and where I suspect the defragmenter bug you ran into is located at.

Hardy ships with 2.9.4-2:  http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/xfsprogs

The work incorporating a more stable XFS into RHEL started with xfsprogs 3.0.1-6 going into Fedora 11, and 3.1.X would represent a current release. So your Ubuntu kernel is two major improvement releases behind, 3.0 and 3.1 were the upgrades to xfsprogs where things really got going again making that code modern and solid. Ubuntu Lucid switched to 3.1.0, RHEL6 will probably ship 3.1.0 too.

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