Re: What is needed for a stable 2.4 based system?

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 13:16, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:

> Is it really that bad? I'm in the process of setting up a server with
> ~2.5 TB of XFS storage, and was just about to go for the linux-2.4-xfs
> cvs-tree.

I'm not saying it's bad! I'm also not saying it's good.  I'm saying that
CVS snapshots are just that; and that they have not been rigorously
tested by anyone at SGI.

> I've had the impression that the cvs-tree was purely a bugfix only
> tree, and that it should be as safe as the kernel.org tree. Is that not true?

the cvs tree is a development tree, warts and all.  It usually -is-
pretty good, but no guarantees.

-Eric

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