From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:59:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:59:27 -0400 Received: from ns.caldera.de ([212.34.180.1]:34990 "EHLO ns.caldera.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:59:15 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 23:58:59 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Chris Wedgwood Cc: Hans Reiser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vitaly Fertman Subject: Re: ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption Message-ID: <20010730235859.A24763@caldera.de> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Chris Wedgwood , Hans Reiser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vitaly Fertman In-Reply-To: <200107281645.f6SGjA620666@ns.caldera.de> <3B653211.FD28320@namesys.com> <20010730210644.A5488@caldera.de> <3B65C3D4.FF8EB12D@namesys.com> <20010730224930.A18311@caldera.de> <3B65CC07.24E3EF4C@namesys.com> <20010730232956.A20969@caldera.de> <3 <3B65D613.E8A0F4BF@namesys.com> <20010731095721.E6318@weta.f00f.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010731095721.E6318@weta.f00f.org>; from cw@f00f.org on Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 09:57:21AM +1200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 09:57:21AM +1200, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 01:48:03AM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote: > > I also don't consider any 2.4 prior to 2.4.4 to be stable, and I > don't consider 2.4.4 to be especially stable but it is usable. > > Shipping 2.4.2 is something you and RedHat did for understandable > marketing reasons. SuSE waited for 2.4.4. > > This is a myth. > > As has been explained --- RedHat does _NOT_ ship a stock > kernel. Redhat 2.4.2 is not the same as stock/linux 2.4.2 so you are > comparing apples with oranges. The same is true for Caldera, btw. Christoph -- Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.