On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 03:59:16PM +0200, U.Mutlu wrote: > I have many times compiled a kernel and used it successfully, > but when I dist-upgraded from Debian 7 to Debian 8 it installed > it's own stock kernel maintained by Debian. No problem to switch > to a newer kernel from kernel.org, but for me it was unclear > if and how the ongoing ext4-developments will have an impact on > existing ext4-partitions. Now I think everything is clear, I'll > take a newer kernel from kernel.org. Many Linux kernel developers use at least one or more ext4 file systems, and they would be very cranky if things became unstable. As a result, we are regularly running regression tests to make sure we don't break ext4 users. This principle holds true for all open source projects, at those with responsible developers. Emacs is constantly adding features --- would that lead you to be concerned after upgrading to Debian 8 that you shouldn't use a new release of emacs because it might corrupt your source files in the course of using it in normal operations, and send e-mail to the emacs developer's list asking if it's safe to use "the new emacs"? Regards, - Ted P.S. There was a typo in my previous message. To be clear, 4.0 is **NOT** is not a long-term supported kernel. (My previous e-mail omitted the "not".) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
