On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 08:44:04AM -0800, Anthony Lau wrote: > Hi, > > Did a really stupid thing and rsync'd away my working > 2.4.9-benh0 directory and turned it into a 2.4.14-pre5-ben0 > directory. > > It wouldn't be too bad if 2.4.14 was usable on my machine > (PowerMac4400/200MHz 604e, 96MB RAM) but it's constantly > swapping, swapping appears to be slower than in 2.4.9, and > system is constantly "stuttering" (unlike 2.4.9 which > "paused" only when massively swapping). > > Luckily I still have a working 2.4.9-benh0 kernel, but > would like to have the source, too. then you better archive it when you sync it, benh's or any other rsync tree for that matter does not guarentee existence even 5 seconds after you finish the rsync, once a new revision is pushed the old source is gone forever. for benh trees i recommend doing a clean sync, renaming it to the date you synced like so: linux-2.4.XXpreYY-bh20001102 and changing the Makefile EXTRAVERSION to match. when you want to update it cp -a the entire tree to something else, rsync and update the versions again. this way you will always know what version you are really running, and what date it came from, -benh0 means nothing as it never ever changes, the only useful version number there is for benh trees is the current date (and even time in some cases). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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