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On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:27:28 -0500 |
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Hendrik Boom <hendrik@××××.com> wrote: |
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> I'm in the process of installing gentoo now, in the hope of getting it to |
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> work more reliably (and more up-to-date) than Debian. Debian's 2.6.18-3 |
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> kernel includes backported msync-optimising patches from 2.19 that don't |
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> work properly and have the effect of sometimes causing serious file-system |
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> damage. (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401006 if |
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> you're curious about gory details). |
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> What I was wondering was whether a similar misfortune has befallen |
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> gentoo's 2.6.18 kernel, or whether gentoo's kernel developers have just |
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> left the 2.6.19 patches in 2.6.19. |
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> Maybe I'm being silly asking about this, but I have become paranoid about |
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> severe file system damage. |
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> -- hendrik |
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there are a number of kernels you can install in gentoo - see inside the directory /usr/portage/sys-kernel. You can also see what patches have been applied by looking at the ebuilds. |
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