My totally unofficial and armchair guess is that the went with 2.4 because critical fixes such as NFS server write performance and numerous hardware drivers did not exist in the 2.2 tree at the time, and they decided to try and stabilize a branch of the 2.4 kernel instead of developing 2.2. On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 10:26, Justin Zygmont wrote: > any idea why RedHat doesn;t use the 2.2.20 kernel? > > > On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 admin@cideweb.com wrote: > > > Hi, > > I installed a 2.4.18 kernel, with ext3 support and make a > > tune2fs -j /dev/sdxxx > > with all partitions, now I want to run a 2.2.20 kernel, I want to know if I > > can use the patch for 2.2.20 series (0.0.7a) without problems with my new > > ext3 partitions, or I must mount it as ext2 from 2.2.20, thanks. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Ext3-users@redhat.com > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ext3-users@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
