Messages in this thread | | | From | "Mike Black" <> | Subject | 2.2.2 two major problems | Date | Wed, 3 Mar 1999 07:34:48 -0500 |
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Linus (and all CD creators) -- please do NOT make 2.2.2 the CDROM release version!!!
#1 - Had to rebuild a RAID array 3x8G raid5 set. mke2fs causes entire operating system to hang due to "out of memory" condition (I've got 128Meg in the machine). Looks like the attempted fixes in inode.c are not successful yet in flushing the buffers. Got it to finally work by reducing the RAID to 3x6G, and using 16384 for the bytes-per-inode -- this could've been a show stopper (my RAID had failed).
#2 - 2.2.2 breaks CONFIG_FILTER (won't compile with this option) -- this means I can't upgrade one of my machines (DHCP server requires CONFIG_FILTER)
I'm not usually one to flame but here goes...
I've been using Linux for 3 years+ for the main reason that support has been outstanding. However, with the release of 2.2.2 it looks like either Linus is taking a vacation (well deserved I might add) or everybody fell off the face of the earth.
When can we hope to have 2.2.3 with these important fixes?? Even a pre-patch release would be welcome (which I generally avoid). The above two problems would be extremely embarassing for the Linux community to be on thousands of CDROMs.
I don't want to change over to the ac kernel series but I'm really disappointed to see that work has apparently stopped for the moment on the main Linux branch. ________________________________________ Michael D. Black Principal Engineer mblack@csi.cc 407-676-2923,x203 http://www.csi.cc Computer Science Innovations http://www.csi.cc/~mike My home page FAX 407-676-2355
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