Re: EXT3

[Simon Law <sfllaw@engmail.uwaterloo.ca>]

On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Aniartia wrote:
> 
> > For the sake of mild curiosty, what's 'special' about the -ac kernels?
> 
> Alan Cox distributes it (as opposed to the plain old Linus Torvalds
> kernels).  A lot of stuff Torvalds picks up was in -ac for some time
> before, this is helpful in letting the lunatic fringe take care of the
> major bugs before it goes into Linus's kernel...

	Hey!  Who are you calling lunatics?  *grin*

	Actually, I've found that the current -ac trees have been more
stable due to the use of a more reliable VM.  Due to the latest Linux
bug, everybody should upgrade to 2.2.19 or 2.4.12, and 2.4.12-ac3 has
been doing quite admirably on my systems.

Simon