Re: How to use Michael Cohen's kernel

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 15:08 21-1-2002 -0600, Stephen Lord wrote:
> Eric Sandeen wrote:
>
> Daniel Robbins of gentoo has been in touch with me separately about problems
> they are having with xfs in this tree - filesystem corruption. So I would 
> hold off
> for a while. We are attempting to workout what is going wrong.

I suggest that people test a 2.4.17 release well before using it in 
production. This is the first time that I see a lot off people with 
filesystem corruption (not to be confused with oopses).

2.4.17 _is_ working alright for a lot of people as well but it is not safe 
perse.
And looking from the gentoo page there are no fixes in 18-pre3 that help 
out XFS since this probably means they are still seeing problems.

People who want to be absolutely safe might better well use 2.4.16. At 
least that one didn't make filesystem corruption afaik.

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.