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

[Jan-Frode Myklebust <janfrode@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 07:08:32AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> For starters, the patch you downloaded is a development snapshot, so if
> it's stable, you're just lucky - it has not undergone extensive testing.

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. Plain 2.4.19 woun't do for me, since there's a hard lockup
bug in the tg3 driver that wasn't fixed before 2.4.20rc3:

        http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0211.3/0167.html

and this is exactly the hardware I'm planning on running my storage
from.

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?


  -jf