Re: kernel update?

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 20:03 20-9-2001 +0200, Jade Nicoletti wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm running linux 2.4.7-pre6-xfs on a production server. It's a debian potato
> installation with some self compiled packages from sid to get all the kernel
> dependences fulfilled. I used gcc 2.95.2 to compile the kernel (and all other
> stuff).
>
> Everything works fine and I'd like to thank you for your work. The system is
> now up for over two monthes and I have never had any problems. XFS is a great
> filesystem :)
>
> Now, I have to add more RAM to the server. And as I have to reboot the machine
> for that, I thought I probably should update the kernel too.
>
> What do you guys recommend?
>
> 1) No kernel update

It it works for you don't break it. If you add ram and it starts crashing 
you have a good reason to start looking at the ram. Touch 1 piece at a time.

> 2) Go with patches/linux-2.4.9-xfs-2001-08-26.patch.bz2

This has some of the min/max issues but seems to do fine for most people.

> 3) Wait for linux-2.4.10 and the corresponding patch

The VM is reworked as Steve said in another email and this might take a 
while to stabalize since XFS interacts with the VM.

Cheers

--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.