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Re: Use CVS version or kernel patch?

To: Blizbor <tb670725@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Use CVS version or kernel patch?
From: Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 00:21:16 +1000
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 Oct 2001 16:17:26 +0200." <5.1.0.14.0.20011008161521.02697ec0@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Mon, 08 Oct 2001 16:17:26 +0200, 
Blizbor <tb670725@xxxxxx> wrote:
>At 10/8/01 09:07 AM, Keith Owens wrote:
>>Are you feeling lucky?  The CVS tree is bleeding edge with minimal
>>testing.  The kernel patches, particularly the official releases (1.0.1
>>is current) get much more testing but are against older kernels.
>
>Sounds interesting. I'm using only CVS tree kernels and never had problems.
>(OK - I'm using also released kernales, but only during install from CD).
>
>Have you any problems with CVS kernels ?

We track Linus's pre-releases so every bug Linus ships, XFS CVS gets as
well.  For example, Linus 2.4.11-pre4 had broken VM under heavy loads,
it is supposed to be fixed in -pre5, we don't know if it is fixed yet.
On top of that, the XFS merge includes kdb, lvm plus its own changes,
if SGI make a mistake then the CVS tree is broken again.


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