Rahul Sundaram wrote:
There's some mention of usability and robustness there that don't
match my experience except around mid to late FC3 and FC6.
You can continue changing interfaces quite rapidly without affecting
robustness. If there are problems with robustness file bug reports. Did
you file any?
Yes, in the firewire case, but I couldn't wait the several months it
took before disks were recognized again. Then for most of FC5 the
update kernels wouldn't boot on an ibm xseries 225 but I didn't have any
idea what to report. Eventually on the mail list someone suggested a
bios update which I did to coincide with installing FC6. After the bios
update, older versions wouldn't work but the new ones did.
Robustness is something you can observe without knowledge of
internals. Why something breaks is not particularly relevant.
Pretty much. So your real concern is not ABI but things not breaking. So
if anything included in Fedora breaks report it. If it is not Fedora
specific consider reporting upstream.
But I don't necessarily want to limit my machine to fedora-owned
drivers. If that is a restriction, then it should be stated clearly
where a new user would see it before installing.
Can you - or someone - comment on whether you'd trust it with your
working copy of something important?
I don't have firewire devices but if my data is important to me, I would
consider doing automated backups.
Yes, I don't expect it to be more robust than the underlying disk drive.
I was just hoping for an educated guess about another months-long
interval where it wouldn't work at all. Or if it will be solid enough
to leave in a raid-mirror configuration?
All my work is done in Fedora. So I do absolutely depend on it.
It's probably not coincidental that fedora works nicely on your
hardware. It hasn't been that way for me much of the time and the user
mail list makes it look like others have many of the same issues.
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