On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 14:13 +1000, Mark Strong wrote:
Hi All, after looking around for info on XFS(the filesystem) and its use on CentOS and/or RHEL 4. There seems to be a lot of noise about 4K Stacks (especially on linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com).
So what is the best way to get XFS working with CentOS 4.3 ? And not have something like this happening.
A quote from the xfs list at sgi
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 at 10:29am, Andrew Elwell wrote
>using the 2.6.9-34 centosplus SMP kernel (3GHz P4 with >hyperthreading enabled) > >what we normally (~once a day) is simply > >do_IRQ: stack overflow: 416 >[<c0107a27>]You don't want to use the XFS in the centosplus kernel. It has major known issues with 4K stacks (leading to overflows). Use the kernel-module-xfs (or somesuch) RPM instead, and you should have better luck.
Do I need a kernel with 8K stacks?
and is this
http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/kernel-module-xfs-2.6.9-34....
the "kernel-module-xfs" RPM he was talking about (or equivalent for `uname -r` equals 2.6.9-34.ELsmp).
Regards Mark Strong
Personally, I would not use xfs on Linux ... maybe take a look here:
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20060814
And see what several debain devel's say about XFS.
RedHat says it is not stable enough to use in RHEL.
I don't think everyone can be wrong.
If you really want to use it, you can use the module you referenced above and our kernel. The standard RHEL kernel will not compile w/ anything except 4k stacks (that is how the CentOS kernel is released too) ... so if you want to do that, you'll need to figure it out.