Re: x86: 4kstacks default

[Eric Sandeen]

Helge Hafting wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> What actually brings bad reputation is shipping a 4k option that is 
>> known to break under some circumstances.
>>   
> How about making 4k stacks incompatible with those circumstances then?
> I.e. is you select 4k stacks, then you can't select XFS because we know
> that _may_ fail. Similiar for ndiswrapper networking, and other
> stuff where problems have been noticed.

Problem is, it's the storage configuration (at administration time, not
kernel build time) that matters, too.

I have XFS on Fedora with 4k stacks on SATA /dev/sdb1 on my x86 mythbox,
and it's perfectly fine.  But that's a nice, simple setup.  If I stacked
more things over/under it, I'd be more likely to have trouble.

-Eric
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