Re: EXT3

["Morbo" <morbo@freemail.hu>]

Hi,

Where do you get those Alan Cox kernels from ?

Many thanks in advance!
regards,
Balazs

----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Law" <sfllaw@engmail.uwaterloo.ca>
To: "Paul 'Baloo' Johnson" <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org>
Cc: "debian-user List" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 08:10
Subject: Re: EXT3


> 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
>
>
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