Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 12 Oct 2001 13:35:51 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Which kernel (Linus or ac)? |
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On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 09:56:19AM +0300, Ville Herva wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 12:37:01AM -0400, you [T. A.] claimed: > > Well I'd have to agree that for stability I'd also go for 2.2.x. 2.4.x > > isn't bad but 2.2.x is just rock stable right now. Furthermore its been > > hard to gain confidence in 2.4.x with all the bugs that have yet to be > > worked out. I'd use 2.2.x almost exclusively if it would just gain support > > for the latest EIDE chipsets, a journaling filesystem, and the latest SMP > > boards. iptables and large file support would also be great. > > Of course, you can get most of the IDE chipset support, fs support (reiserfs > 3.5, ext3) and LFS support as patches for 2.2:
btw, just a reminder, 2.2.20pre10aa1 has full lfs support too (everything, including getdents64, nfv3, lockd all 64bit).
ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.2/2.2.20pre10aa1.bz2 ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.2/2.2.20pre10aa1/40_lfs-2.2.20pre10aa1-28.bz2
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