Re: On links and things
> Public opinion time. I've decided to go back to patchlevel 14. I've
> heard complaints that networking isn't quite stable; I know that people
> were very happy with the networking in 0.81 (which contained patchlevel
> 14), and I personally have had frequent EXT2 filesystem panics simply
> moving large files around. Perhaps including an ALPHA kernel wasn't
> the wisest decision. Thoughts?
I've had *zero* problems with the ALPHA kernels running SLIP networking
4-6 hours every day. Are these problems ethernet related? Comments? My
selfish reason for Debian not shying away from the latest kernel (14w+) is the
excellent ftape support. I'm playing with getting dpkg to install directly
from QIC-80 tape with the ftape module. If we regress back to stock pl14
ftape requires patches, whereas the ALPHA kernels are ftape-ready out of the
box.
BTW, has anybody else looked into installing directly from tape with the ftape
driver? I'm also curious if the QIC-02 install procedure is in the works since
that driver is a great deal more mature.
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