linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

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Date:	Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:45:00 -0600
From:	Zan Lynx <zlynx@....org>
To:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>
Cc:	Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@...il.com>,
	Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>, Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>,
	David Chinner <dgc@....com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 18:52 +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
> On 07/17/2007 06:14 PM, Shawn Bohrer wrote:
> 
> > I can't speak for Fedora, but RHEL disables XFS in their kernel likely
> > because it is known to cause problems with 4K stacks.
> 
> Okay. So is it fair to say it's largely XFS that's the problem? No problems 
> with LVM/MD and say plain ext?

There *are* crashes from LVM and ext3.  I had to change kernels to avoid
them.

I had crashes with ext3 on LVM snapshot on DM mirror on SATA.
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx@....org>

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