Re: Still Considering Debian - But Stuck!
Am 2004-02-02 13:24:24, schrieb Fred Whipple:
>Hi Everyone,
>I see that Debian 3.0r2 includes a nicely aged (like fine cheese) Linux
>2.2 kernel. While I'm certain the aging process only makes its flavour
Who install 2.2.22 ???
There is a 2.4.18-bf24 too.
>stronger and more delectable, I'm afraid it's going to choke at the
>thought of 10,000 threads. Say nothing of 20,000. Now I imagine it's
>not so difficult to simply compile a recent 2.4 (2.5?) kernel and go
Install the bf24 and then get the Source 2.4.24 and compile your own one.
>from there. Is this fair? Or would you suppose that the current stable
>Debian is too old in other areas to properly handle kernel 2.4?
2.6.1 runs too !
>Finally, while I'm messing around with the kernel, I'd have to include
>support for ext3fs. In our environment, journaling is not an option,
No problem, I use ext3 since 2.4.18
>it's a base requirement. Of course replacing the kernel would pretty
>much give me kernel-level support for it. From that point, how
>complicated is it to get the rest of the tools to play nicely with
>ext3fs? I'd imagine that a large set of tools would need to be
>replaced, including e2fsck, mount, umount, etc.
All tools are suporting ext3
>Thanks once again for all the info so far!
>
> -Fred Whipple
Greetings
Michelle
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