Hi, I'm using 2.6.6 on my Gentoo box and have had exactly zero problems. I'm using Reiserfs. Jayson. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Toby Fisher" <toby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 3:17 PM Subject: Re: 2.6 kernel status > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi all. > > > > I've asked this a while back. Is the 2.6 series of kernels ready for > > production use (I.E. should I go ahead and upgrade my slackware 9.1 > > server to 2.6.6)? Back when I asked this, a number of people responded > > that they wouldn't go putting 2.6 on a server just yet, and to wait a > > while until distributions come out with it. > > > > I know that fedora is 2.6 based, but are other distros? Are there > > slackware folks here running 2.6 on production boxes? If I do upgrade > > to 2.6.6, what are the pit falls I should watch out for in terms of > > slackware packages which I might need in slack 9.1? > > > > I've seen more and more folks on here upgrading to 2.6.6, so I thought > > I'd ask this again, and get everyone's impressions the second time > > around. Thanks. > > Gentoo still views it as developmental, but it seems pretty stable to me > here, though because of all the stuff I've compiled in, the kernel image > is over 1800 kb! > > The only problem I've found is that for some reason, on some boot-ups, and > there's no reason for these happenings, the root file system, despite the > boot messages, never gets remounted read/write, which causes lal sorts of > probs, such as clamd not starting, and b eing unable to do much because > /tmp is read-only, this also means you can't reboot cleanly because it > can't write half the tuff it needs to, in other words, it's a mess. > However, using e3fs I just hit the reset and it comes up nicely, sometimes > this takes 2 or 3 goes, though recently I haven't had this problem quite > so much, but I'm baffled by it much the same. Therefore I probably > wouldn't use it on production systems as if they have to be reb ooted > remotely or on a timed sequence you could loose service from them. > > Apart from that though, I'm happy with it. > > Cheers. > > > -- > Toby Fisher Email: toby at tjfisher.co.uk > Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 > ICQ: #61744808 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
