From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964881AbWEJJr5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 May 2006 05:47:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964882AbWEJJr5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 May 2006 05:47:57 -0400 Received: from smtp.bulldogdsl.com ([212.158.248.7]:10760 "EHLO mcr-smtp-001.bulldogdsl.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964881AbWEJJr4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 May 2006 05:47:56 -0400 X-Spam-Abuse: Please report all spam/abuse matters to abuse@bulldogdsl.com From: Alistair John Strachan To: Jan Engelhardt Subject: Re: Stability of 2.6.17-rc3? Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 10:41:14 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Jesper Juhl , Joshua Hudson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <9a8748490605091501r4bcff8b0q630cbf2fa0e33732@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605101041.14595.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 10 May 2006 08:34, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > 2.6.17-rc3 is a development kernel, no guarantees about anything really. > > Development kernels are run completely at your own risk. It may run > > fine, it may explode at boot, [...], it may eat your lunch, it may cause > > an alien invasion -[...] > > Quite a list. So what can -mm kernels make go wrong more? :-] Well, back in the 2.5 days, JFS/-mm ate my filesystem, which is possibly worse than it eating my lunch, and more relevant to me than an alien invasion... Though, Joshua, 2.6.17-rc3 seems to be a rock-solid release. It's safe enough to diff against and boot, if that's what you want to do. -- Cheers, Alistair. Third year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.