Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: I vote for updated RAID and KNFSD | Date | Thu, 9 Sep 1999 14:12:15 +0200 (MEST) | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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Stefan Monnier wrote:
> The RAID code is considered stable (and even more stable than the > old version), so there's no reason from a stability point of view > not to include it. You seem to be confusing staticness and > stbility. 2.2 is meant to be "stable" but not static.
Talking about confusing: Some people (rightly, I think) feel that within a stable release, you shouldn't be required to upgrade userland tools. A system installed with 2.2.0 should be seamlessly upgradeable to 2.2.12. Everyone knows that when you go from 2.0.x to 2.2.x, you might (and as it happens, WILL) have to upgrade a few userland packages, but within a stable kernel release, an upgrade shouldn't lead to an avalange of user-space-program upgrades.
As I understand things, the RAID code works for some who hate to have to upgrade their tools "for nothing", but not for others, who hate to have to keep on patching their kernel.
Roger.
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