On Maw, 2003-05-06 at 14:16, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> >>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
>
> Alan> Wildly improbable. 2.6-test maybe, but there are way too
> Alan> many bugs left including data corruption.
>
> What sort of data corruption?
>
> I've just ordered a dual Xeon machine, so I was planning to run 2.5.x
> on it, to maximize throughput, but this sounds worrying. perhaps I'd
> better stick to 2.4.n?
At least as of 2.5.68 floppy corrupts data, and there have been odd (but
not horrifying) problems with IDE that Bart may now have fixed. After
that its a case of going through the noise, figuring out which other
minor corruption reports come from the tty bug, vm races, user error,
bad ram and so on.
I run 2.5.x continually on some non critical boxes. I do have backups
but even on 2.4 nothing says my disk wont suddenely fail anyway.
A lot of these are corner cases, and crossing off items one at a time,
not "it eats lots of computers"
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