Skiplist / best practice for 2.1 branch

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh hmh at debian.org
Mon Nov 18 19:05:24 EST 2002


On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:
> -- Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh at debian.org> is rumored to have mumbled 
> on Montag, 18. November 2002 19:20 Uhr -0200 regarding Re: Skiplist / best 
> practice for 2.1 branch:
> 
> >  4. Journaling filesystem (xfs, ext3, Reiser), in a 2.4.20pre kernel.
> 
> Why do you suggest using 2.4.20pre? Is there something wrong with 2.4.18 
> (+XFS patches)?

Assorted kernel bugs that are of no major concern in a closed,
tightly-controlled system (otherwise, there are very nasty local DoS
problems). And some EXT3/EXT2 buglets too, but since you're using xfs, that
doesn't concern you.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh




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