On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 10:50, Warren Togami wrote: > On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 21:30, Klaasjan Brand wrote: > > It might be a good idea to make 2.5/2.6-test rpm's available to increase > > bug feedback though. Thinking about making them myself, as soon as the > > more extreme disk corruption problems are ironed out... > Are there still extreme disk corruption issues in the 2.5 kernel? I > thought after they reverted to the old IDE layer rather than attempt the > rewrite things were considered "stable enough to generally not corrupt > your filesystem"? Generally it seems. I'm not a real kernel hacker (although I play one on mailing lists ;) but if I read Andrew Morton's 2.6 TODO list correctly there's still some cases where it can screw up your filesystem... > I am very interested in one day making a test 2.5 kernel RPM compiled > for different archs for testing purposes, along with modified > initscripts to the handle the kernel and module changes. Would you and > perhaps other people be interested in working together on this type of > mini-project? I think the best time would be when Linus announces 2.6-test and the users instead of developers should start to wrinkle out the remaining bugs. Drop me a mail if you'd like some help. greets, Klaasjan
