Messages in this thread | | | From | Alistair John Strachan <> | Subject | Re: Stability of 2.6.17-rc3? | Date | Thu, 11 May 2006 01:19:46 +0100 |
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On Wednesday 10 May 2006 23:23, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >Though, Joshua, 2.6.17-rc3 seems to be a rock-solid release. It's safe > > enough to diff against and boot, if that's what you want to do. > > It did not eat the virtual machine so its chances are good. However, I wait > for 2.6.17 because of the few XFS fixes gone in since then.
I run a 1TB XFS filesystem on a RAID5 with no ill-effects. I've never experienced data-loss in 2.6, mostly due to conservative options (no 4k stacks, no regparm, XFS only).
-- Cheers, Alistair.
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