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SubjectRe: RAID is a matter of availability, not data security
Rudolf Leitgeb wrote:
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> No we seem to be stuck in the "2.3.x is useless" stage and people cry for new
> features in 2.2.x again. Lots of people were ready to tinker around with 2.3,
> when they suddenly broke FAT and many other file systems. Then we had all kinds
> of horror messages of 2.3 kernels that suffered major instabilities here on
> lk-ml. As a result only true hackers and some newbies who didn't know better
> lay their hands on 2.3 kernels, but throrough real world testing only barely
> happens (I haven't read one article here on lk-ml where someone used 2.3.x on a
> big server. There was not one message so far about a DOS attack against 2.3.x
> kernels, IIRC.)
...
> Rudi

I am afraid that the major drawback that prevents people from using
2.3.x is the FAT breakage...begin:vcard
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