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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? -- Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> 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/ | ||||||||||
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