Re: 2.2 kernel

[Phil Brutsche <pbrutsch@creighton.edu>]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 07:20:54AM -0800, aphro wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Onno wrote:
> > 
> > Onno >2.2.13 and 2.2.14 are lokking good, is there anyone on this
> > Onno >list that find them unstable?
> > Onno >
> > 
> > i avoided 2.2.13 it was just a bug fixer from 2.2.12/.11  .14 has been ok
> > for me so far, although i have it installed on a BP6 that crashes on a
> > weekly basis as it is (.11 crashed on a daily basis)
> 
> 2.2.13 is evil.  it throughly and completely and repeatedly ruins
> filesystems.  
> 
> (i know not for everyone, but if you want to be scared into getting
> rid of it i'll send the 64000+ byte output of fsck as it dumped 2/3 of
> my / filesystem into /lost+found, to do `corrupted blocks' or some
> such, then compare that to the changelog for 2.2.14 fixing a `obscure
> block corruption bug'....  )

Ouch.

I've always wondered how people find these problems - I've been using
2.2.x from 2.2.0 straight through 2.2.14 without a single problem on three
machines with totally different hardware.

I've even been using 2.3.x since 2.3.31, and haven't seen any of the
problems I've seen reports on.

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Phil Brutsche					pbrutsch@creighton.edu

"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
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