On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Urs Beyerle wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> As written in ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/44/i386/contrib/RPMS/xfs/README , XFS 
> is not recommended on SL4 32bit kernels.
> 
> What kind of problems where observed?

Some problems are because the Upstream Vendor kernel, which we of course 
use, has 4k kernel stacks vs a more common 8k kernel stack.

Problems with layers of filesystems, lvm for instance.

> Is somebody working on a solution, which does not require to recompile the standard SL4 kernel?

I do not think that anyone is working on a solution. I talked to a
developer from SGI while I was at "Linux Symposium".  His answer was to
just use 64 bit.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Urs
> 

-Connie Sieh