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- From: qx@shire.math.columbia.edu (Qi Xia)
- Subject: ANNOUNCE xfs-0.6.1 test release
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:06:59 GMT
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- ANNOUNCE xfs-0.6.1 test release.
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- l99.4-xfs6.1.note (this file)
- l99.4-xfs6.1.tar.Z
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- has been uploaded to tsx-11.mit.edu, sunsite.unc.edu incoming directory.
-
- This is a test release.
-
- xfs-0.6.1 sacrifices two direct block pointer in each inode for ctime
- and atime. xfs-0.6.1 use three seperate time record.
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- This means the layout of xfs-0.6.1 is not compatible with xfs-0.6.
- Now xfs has all the fields a "real UNIX" inode has as per Bach's book.
- With the target (at least for me) that the Linux will be used as a
- personal workstation, light multi-user system or a server on a LAN
- with similar box, as NeXT does, I believe that this is the first and
- also the last time of changing layout of xfs.
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- xfs-0.6.1 has run on my machine since last Saturday. I think I should
- make it available for test before too may people jump into xfs.
- I will not write an in-place converter, because in case there is a bug,
- it will be defficult to figure out if the bug is in the converter or
- xfs itself. I apologize for the extra work of whose who have tested
- xfs-0.6.
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- I have added a short tutorial to reduce the confusion of how to install
- xfs-0.6.1.
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- The primary reports of xfs-0.6 testing are quite encourage. Except
- one tester failed to make it work after heavy hand-editing the patch
- (He has many other stuff to add into the kernel), all other testers
- (3-4) made their system with xfs work fine so far. There
- are no bug found in the kernel part. Three silly bugs found in the
- xfsck. They are fixed in 0.6.1.
-
- I only have IDE disks. I can not test if xfs happy with disks have
- bad blocks. If you are a xfs tester and has a non-IDE disk, please
- let me know if it works.
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- Warning!!! This is still an ALPHA test release. You may experience
- data lost. Keep this in mind.
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