Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 13:08:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 13:08:16 -0500 Received: from garrincha.netbank.com.br ([200.203.199.88]:28945 "HELO netbank.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 13:08:05 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:08:22 -0200 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: To: "P.Agenbag" Cc: Subject: Re: 2.4.13 kernel and ext3??? In-Reply-To: <3BDEE870.1060104@psimation.com> Message-ID: X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, P.Agenbag wrote: > Does it mean that if there is a fairly large difference between the > RedHat 2.4.7 and the stock one from kernel.org, that they are not > really the same? Indeed, but that's a good thing because people often want/need more features or bugfixes than what's in the standard kernel. > ie, does anyone foresee any future problems with redhat adding > all these extra features to their kernel and people who would like to > upgrade to a newer version ( for one, I selected ext3 during install, > yet, now trying to install 2.4.13, I must revert back to ext2...) ext3 has been in Alan's kernels for a while now, you can always upgrade to a new -ac kernel and keep using ext3. Also, the fact that ext3 isn't available in 2.4 -linus doesn't sound like a good reason to not make this useful feature available to the users of Linux distributions ;) regards, Rik -- DMCA, SSSCA, W3C? Who cares? http://thefreeworld.net/ http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ - 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/