On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 11:08:49AM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > >ext3 is always modular in the RH kernels, > > Doesn't that mean that boot-time fscks will take much longer because the > kernel will think the partitions are all ext2 and won't check the > journal? After recompiling the kernel with ext3 support built-in, fscks > were much faster. I didn't think the RH kernels had this problem. nope we load ext3 from the initrd, that happens before the kernel even thinks about root filesystems... > > the RHEL3 smp kernel has 64Gb > >support enabled... so that looks right > > That's strange - our driver doesn't support high memory, so it doesn't > work if 64GB support is turned on, and yet it works with RHEL3 SMP. well how about fixing your driver... (or let the community help fixing it) > Is there a way I can ask a currently running kernel if 64GB support is via a gross hack perhaps... sizeof(dma_addr_t)==8 on x86 for 64G ..
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