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"Thomas T. Veldhouse" wrote: |
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> Thanks - I have since found the installation page (quite obvious - |
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> especially since I found the developers page first). I have also noticed |
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> the rc3 has disappeared - soon to be replaced. |
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> I am wondering about the release criteria. What criteria must be met to |
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> make the 1.0 release, and what is missing as of yet? |
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Good question. :-) |
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> I am curious because |
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> of the development nature of reiserfs, there are still numerous bugs - |
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> especially related to nfs support. |
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Hmm, I'm using reiserfs over a year here (2.2.14/2.5.12 with suse's knfs patch) |
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and I never had corrupted files. |
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It is true that there where lots of bugs in the 3.6 version but there where |
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only several files corrupted sometimes |
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over here. Since 2.4.1-pre8 reiserfs is included in the kernel and the latest |
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ac patch contains good fixes for various |
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latency problems. Of cause the only working journaling fs that can be used with |
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nfs is ext3. |
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I included Neil Browns and Chris Masons nfs/reiserfs patches in the latest |
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kernel package. They are of beta quality |
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but I did not have problems with it (running since 3 days). |
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If reiserfs looks still too dangerous for you, you can still use ext2. |
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But I think reiserfs/nfs will be quite usable in the near future when we |
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release 1.0. |
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> I believe grub is alpha as well, but I |
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> have not heard that it is anything but release quality in nature. |
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You can still use lilo if you run into trouble with grub. I think it is |
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declared as alpha because the dev's want to |
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add a lot more functionality to it. In my eyes grub is much easier to handle |
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that lilo and I had no problems with it till |
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now. |
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achim~ |
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> |
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> |
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> Tom Veldhouse |
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> veldy@×××××.net |
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> |
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> ----- Original Message ----- |
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> From: <drobbins@g.o> |
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> To: <gentoo-dev@g.o> |
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> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 11:51 AM |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Good place to start? |
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> |
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> > |
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> > The intelligence behind building the entire distribution does reside in |
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> Portage; |
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> > however, we do have an installation CD ISO image that has pre-built binary |
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> > packages. You can download this CD and install Gentoo Linux directly. We |
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> > have instructions (that I'm about to update) posted on the web site. |
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> > |
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> > Best Regards, |
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> > |
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> > -- |
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> > Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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> > President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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> > Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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> |
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