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Re: 2.4.15 (2.5.0) causes file system corruption



On Sat, Nov 24, 2001, mulix wrote about "2.4.15 (2.5.0) causes file system corruption":
> 2.4.15 has a problem with dirty inodes being left around on umount,
>...
> QA? wtf is QA?

QA is when you let people use the kernel for a little more than 2 days before
everybody and their uncle starts using this kernel...

This is why I usually use Redhat's kernels, and now I'm using their 2.4.9.
It is not the most state-of-the-art kernel, maybe it even has some bugs, but
at least it was checked for enough time to make sure there are no "obvious"
bugs (like umount corrupting the filesystem). I see no reason to always
upgrade to the latest kernel-du-jour, unless of course you really need some
feature that appeared only in 2.4.15.

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