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DateMon, 30 Sep 2002 15:32:42 -0400 (EDT)
FromBill Davidsen <>
SubjectRe: v2.6 vs v3.0
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Jens Axboe wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 29 2002, jbradford@dial.pipex.com wrote:
> > > Anyway, people who are having VM trouble with the current 2.5.x series, 
> > > please _complain_, and tell what your workload is. Don't sit silent and 
> > > make us think we're good to go.. And if Ingo is right, I'll do the 3.0.x 
> > > thing.
> > 
> > I think the broken IDE in 2.5.x has meant that it got seriously less
> > testing overall than previous development trees :-(.  Maybe after
> > halloween when it stabilises a bit more we'll get more reports in.
> 
> 2.5 is definitely desktop stable, so please test it if you can. Until
> recently there was a personal show stopper for me, the tasklist
> deadline. Now 2.5 is happily running on my desktop as well.

2.5.38-mm2 has been stable for me on uni, what is the status of SMP? I had
what looked like logical to physical mapping problems on a BP6 and Abit
dual P5C-166, resulting in syslog data on every drive including those with
no Linux partition. That was somewhere around 2.5.22 to 2.5.26.

> 2.5 IDE stability should be just as good as 2.4-ac.

A laudable goal.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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