Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com) said: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 02:43:57PM +0100, Nigel Metheringham wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 01:33, Mike Snitzer wrote: > > > I am in a situation where I absolutely need to run a redhat 2.4.2-2 kernel > > > because of other hardware/system requirements depending solely on 2.4.2-2. > > > > If you mean the hardware suppliers have given you binary modules and > > won't update, then you have bigger problems than ext3 can fix. > > If that's the problem, there may be workarounds --- it may be possible > to run the fs on a separate machine entirely, exporting it over NFS, > for example. thanks for your insight; but as it turns out the binary only module that tivoli provides for sanergy is not SMPsafe under 2.4; which kills us more than anything. btw, I'm about 95% of the way done with backporting ext3 to redhat 2.4.2-2; I just need to add prefetch() (required by fs/buffer.c).. but in that we won't even be using this kernel at all; I'm probably not going to finish the backport right now; as I have more important things to do. Mike
