Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 May 2006 06:37:48 +0200 | From | "Jesper Juhl" <> | Subject | Re: How to send a break? - dump from frozen 64bit linux |
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On 28/05/06, Haar János <djani22@netcenter.hu> 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?
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