Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> It is all a cunning ploy by Redhat, they always sneak things up on us.
> Given that this is a security update I suspect there will be an update
> to 7.2 when it comes out - but to what I don't know.
>
> If you are worried about security then you could download a later patch
> from our ftp site and build your own kernel until we have something in
> a more packaged form - 2.4.10 should do it.
Uhh, I would be very careful about using any Linus kernel in the
2.4.10 - 2.4.12 range. That was right in the middle of the radical VM
changes that went in, and several things were broken (HIGHMEM was
certainly broken in many of those kernels, for example).
I still worry about some things being broken, since there seems rather
sloppy testing going on before each kernel is put out, and other things
always slip in after something is known to work.
(can you tell I disapprove?)
I've been trying to find a newer than 2.4.6-ish kernel to settle on
(2.4.7 would be ok, the redhat patch you guys have seems interesting!),
and some of the XFS snapshots have had leaks, and just by running a
kernel compile loop (make clean ; make bzImage) for a few days I could
eat up much of the available memory on my 768MB machine.
On the other hand, the recent XFS CVS of 2.4.13-pre3 seems both to work
fine through several days of testing (I have no machine big enough to
test HIGHMEM, though I have SMP) and several build issues were resolved
for various modules... the common complaint about the i2o move and
other things seem resolved.
I was going to try out 2.4.13-pre5 today.
BTW, is the patched new RH kernel based on 1.0.1, or some XFS "snapshot"?
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Erich Stefan Boleyn <erich@xxxxxxxx> http://www.uruk.org/
"Reality is truly stranger than fiction; Probably why fiction is so popular"
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