Re: Linux 2.2.18pre4

From: Tom Rini (trini@kernel.crashing.org)
Date: Mon Sep 11 2000 - 00:40:19 EST


On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 07:57:38PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 23:05:29 -0400 (EDT)
>
> Over on the freebsd-questions mailing list you can see desperate
> people trying to convert Linux systems over to that other OS to
> escape Linux 2.2.xx NFS. This is kind of serious, you know?
>
> So basically the situation is that people prefer to switch the whole
> OS as opposed to applying a kernel patch?

Well, it seems a good many people don't know there are patches out there for
NFS that make it bearable or don't want to try and compile a kernel. As an
aside, anyone know which vendors kernel source either a) has some variant of the
NFS patches or b) has a clean enough tree that new ones apply fine?

-- 
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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