Re: Installer of Debian Stable allows to use btrfs for /, does it mean it's mature enough to use safely?
On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 22:29:20 +0200, Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org>
wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 08:07:20PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
>> [1] I remember the day when a Debian stable point release introduced a
>> new version of an ethernet driver that broke an entire class of IBM
>> blade servers' networks and I also remember being scolded for relying
>> on Debian stable instead of doing extensive tests myself
>
>And there is truth to that.
Of course. But, alas, introducing a new driver to a stable kernel is
IMO a violation of the stable principle. But I do understand that
those things are necessary from time to time.
>Compared to other vendors (and even companies)
>Debian does not have an extensive test lab to try to guard ourselves against
>regressions. There is only so much you can do about drivers that people
>who rely on stable in a mission critical environment should do their own
>acceptance testing before deploying changes.
Yes. Unfortunately, in this case, I was just the one doing the
debugging and getting yelled at for debugging, not the one who
deployed the update.
Greetings
Marc
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