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From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Subject: Re: reiserfs on redhat advanced server?
Date: 31 Jan 2003 10:22:14 -0500
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To: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
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On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 10:00, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:15, Hans Reiser wrote:
> > >The fact that nobody actually ships a vanilla kernel should make it
> > >pretty clear the stock releases are not ready for the tasks our
> > >customers need them for.
> >
> > This is not clear to me at all.
> 
> I agree.  I have fairly vanilla 2.4.20 kernels running high performance mail 
> servers and other tasks on ReiserFS.  The only patches I have are LSM and a 
> patch one of the ReiserFS developers pointed me to for performance.
> 

A highly qualified admin can go out and find the small number of patches
their configuration really needs, and this will always be smaller than
the list of patches a distro includes (BTW, I thought you also needed
block-highmem?)

Most people don't have the time or energy to manage that however.

-chris