From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>,
Joshua Hudson <joshudson@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Stability of 2.6.17-rc3?
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 10:41:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200605101041.14595.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0605100931250.27657@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 08:34, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > 2.6.17-rc3 is a development kernel, no guarantees about anything really.
> > Development kernels are run completely at your own risk. It may run
> > fine, it may explode at boot, [...], it may eat your lunch, it may cause
> > an alien invasion -[...]
>
> Quite a list. So what can -mm kernels make go wrong more? :-]
Well, back in the 2.5 days, JFS/-mm ate my filesystem, which is possibly worse
than it eating my lunch, and more relevant to me than an alien invasion...
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.
--
Cheers,
Alistair.
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-10 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-09 20:40 Stability of 2.6.17-rc3? Joshua Hudson
2006-05-09 22:01 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-05-10 7:34 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-10 9:41 ` Alistair John Strachan [this message]
2006-05-10 22:23 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-11 0:19 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-11 11:23 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-10 7:31 ` Jan Engelhardt
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