Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965105AbWEKATi (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 May 2006 20:19:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965106AbWEKATi (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 May 2006 20:19:38 -0400 Received: from smtp.bulldogdsl.com ([212.158.248.7]:53770 "EHLO mcr-smtp-001.bulldogdsl.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965105AbWEKATh (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 May 2006 20:19:37 -0400 X-Spam-Abuse: Please report all spam/abuse matters to abuse@bulldogdsl.com From: Alistair John Strachan To: Jan Engelhardt Subject: Re: Stability of 2.6.17-rc3? Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 01:19:46 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Jesper Juhl , Joshua Hudson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200605101041.14595.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605110119.46822.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 867 Lines: 22 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. Third year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/