Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:04:45 +0100 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: Hi! I've noticed that kernel.org advertises 2.6.28 as "The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is". |
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On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:39:55PM +0700, Igor Podlesny wrote: > Actually that's either a mistake or I don't know what you guys call "a > stable version". > > Since 2.6.24 there're serious regressions in all the following > "stable" releases. Both my own experience + http://www.kerneloops.org/ > proves that. > > Just to bring in some examples: > > -- using 2.6.25.x I started to notice "oops"es in dmesg (what hadn't > been happening for a long time). > > -- since 2.6.26 mine desktop system can't go suspend or hibernate. It > tries, but immediately returns from that trying. > > -- Copying several rather big files (~ 25--45 GiB) from XFS on LVM-2 > on MDraid partition to another one, I had the system rebooted both > with 2.6.28 and 2.6.27.10 (accomplished using 2.6.24.7-rt(sic!)25). As > you probably understand, that's the case you even can't trace where's > the problem, at least on a desktop with GUI, not on server with plain > text display. Although, I'm afraid even text display wouldn't had a > chance to show anything, tracing that problem. > > So, I don't feel Linux is stable since 2.6.24. Do you?
Well, I won't say that I find them 100% rock solid, but you seem to be able to reproduce a lot of serious issues. Have you filed bug reports to get them fixed ? You cannot expect people to fix bugs they're not aware of !
Also it would be a good idea to get all those issues fixed soon, because 2.6.27-stable will be maintained for a long time.
Willy
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