Unsupported Kernel for X86_64 and i386

[jlb17 at duke.edu (Joshua Baker-LePain)]

On Thu, 12 May 2005 at 8:02am, Johnny Hughes wrote

> I have fully tested this kernel, and I think it is very stable ... but I
> only have 5 test machines and 2 production CentOS-4 servers where I can
> run it.  RHEL does not provide this kind of kernel, so if it breaks, you
> get to keep the pieces :)  I will, of course, try to fix any issues that
> arise in this kernel that do not happen in the RHEL one.

I'll post one warning about the kernel on i386.  XFS has some issues with 
4K stacks that can lead to overflows.  Some see 'em (I did, testing a 
similar kernel on a single SCSI disk), others don't.  So, to reiterate, 
TEST before going into production.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University