2.6 ready?

[Collins Richey]

On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 10:56:43 -0700
"Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> On 04/04/04 10:38, Collins Richey wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 07:45:25 -0700
> > "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>On 04/03/04 19:07, Shawn Tayler wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hi Guys,
> >>>
> >>>I remember some months back there was discussion on the stability
> >of>>the 2.6 kernel.  I was wondering if there are any recent
> >opinions?>
> >>I'm running 2.6.x on most of my desktop boxes, and its been ok.  I'm
> >
> >>prolly going to wait until 2.6.10 before putting it on any
> >production>boxes.

As Kurt mentioned, prolly not a good idea to target a specific dot
release; better to monitor results and current patch activity.  Just my
$.02.

> > 
> > 
> > It's been ready for me since late 2.5 days. 

[ snipped ]

> Little,  if any of that, is relevant to production servers.

True enough, but I only have desktop machines.

> > And, oh yes, xfs is now a fully supported fs. I don't know whether
> > that's good or bad, since I'm a died in the wool ext3 fan.
> 
> XFS was merged in 2.4.25 as well.
> 

My general impression of the latter 2.4.2x kernels was that it was a
real roller coaster ride.  I heard nothing but bad news reports from
gentoo users. IMO, 2.6 was a lot more stable than 2.4 at that point.
Nice to have XFS inline, but maybe on a not very stable base? I'm sure
that anyone with a production server passed on some of these kernels as
well.

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