On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 04:14:50PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 05:41:51AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Looks generally good, although I wonder the take on the realtime device > > is a bit too positive given that we generally advise people not to use > > it. > > Last time I tried formatting with a rt device (a month ago) the kernel crashed, > as soon as I created an inode, so I guess we ought to warn people that this > feature is severely bitrotted. > > What /is/ the official status of XFS RT? Most sane distros (looking right at > you, Ubuntu) disable kernel support, so I guess: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > WARNING: The realtime feature is not well maintained. Use with caution. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ It gets quite a long way through xfstests here before there's an assert failure in the rt summary locking code. I'm planning on fixing that when I get a chance and then running xfstests on it regularly. I also have patches for xfstests that allow the config section code to use external devices, which makes it somewhat easier to have a "forget+test" config.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
