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Re: The time has come (part II) ...



On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 10:08:11PM +0100, Eric Delaunay wrote:
> 
> About kernel, I will release the next bootdisks with 2.0.35.  Is it enough
> reliable for *all* sparc workstations, or should I switch to 2.1 ?

The 2.0.x kernels suffer performance wise on the sun4c's i have used them
on. For example it took about an hour for them to run mke2fs on my 2 gig
drive, while the 2.1 kernels went at it in about 15 minutes (or less).

2.0.35 works well on sun4m's tho.

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