Bug 19520

Summary:	1.4_rc4 liveCD kernel issues
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Bug Hunter <tidoineurope>
Component:	Everything	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED LATER
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	Highest
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Bug Hunter 2003-04-17 19:08:10 UTC

the livecd has two kernels:
2.4.20-xfs-r2 & 2.4.21_pre7-gss-livecd

i have some spiffy SMP boxes - so i chose the smp kernel which
happens to be 2.4.21_pre7-gss-livecd

i also like to use XFS - and while the tools are available to me,
when i tried to mount an xfs partition it said xfs not supported...

ALSO

to make matters worse, even if it had worked - the kernel has some
serious performance problem.

i tried a "hdparm -tT /dev/sda" after a "modprobe aacraid"

and it got approx 20MB/s

which would be good if the other kernel (2.4.20-xfs-r2) and all my other
boxes (which are smp & not installed from this livecd) didn't get 60MB/s...

So - if i choose the livecd smp option - i lose xfs & performance
(not exactly my idea of why i would have SMP boxes for in the first place)

Box configuration:
2x 2.4G Xeon, 2G RAM, Hardware RAID, ...



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-04-20 10:47:09 UTC

In the process of working on a different second kernel
with xfs support.