From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>,
Joshua Hudson <joshudson@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Stability of 2.6.17-rc3?
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 01:19:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200605110119.46822.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0605110022040.5869@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 23:23, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >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.
>
> It did not eat the virtual machine so its chances are good. However, I wait
> for 2.6.17 because of the few XFS fixes gone in since then.
I run a 1TB XFS filesystem on a RAID5 with no ill-effects. I've never
experienced data-loss in 2.6, mostly due to conservative options (no 4k
stacks, no regparm, XFS only).
--
Cheers,
Alistair.
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-11 0:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-09 20:40 Joshua Hudson
2006-05-09 22:01 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-05-10 7:34 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-10 9:41 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-10 22:23 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-11 0:19 ` Alistair John Strachan [this message]
2006-05-11 11:23 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-10 7:31 ` Jan Engelhardt
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