Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:54:03 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: Ext3 File System "Too many files" with snort |
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On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 10:57:25AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: > RHEL applies all sorts of patches that have not been tested in mainline, > and then tells its customers that it is more stable when the reverse is > true. RHEL should pick a stable mainline kernel 6 weeks after it has > proven stable, and use it.
I haven't heard that big complains about RH stability yet, but applying random vendor patches increases Q&A costs - apparently RH seems to be quite successfull with that business model anyway.
> Their not applying reiserfs bugfixes that are present in the mainline is > just more evidence that they don't care about stability as much as > marketing.
Why the heck should they waste ressources with backporting reiserfs fixes if they don't support it? If you care for reiserfs stability in RHEL send them patches, that's what SGI did for XFS in Fedora Core 2.
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