Re: Stability of 2.6.17-rc3?

[Alistair John Strachan]

On Wednesday 10 May 2006 23:23, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >Though, Joshua, 2.6.17-rc3 seems to be a rock-solid release. It's safe
> > enough to diff against and boot, if that's what you want to do.
>
> It did not eat the virtual machine so its chances are good. However, I wait
> for 2.6.17 because of the few XFS fixes gone in since then.

I run a 1TB XFS filesystem on a RAID5 with no ill-effects. I've never 
experienced data-loss in 2.6, mostly due to conservative options (no 4k 
stacks, no regparm, XFS only).

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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