From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oleg Drokin Subject: Re: reiserfs on redhat advanced server? Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 16:06:24 +0300 Message-ID: <20030131160624.A12036@namesys.com> References: <20030130173522.3aa4d0e1.pegasus@nerv.eu.org> <3E397A19.60409@namesys.com> <20030130234142.E8448@vestdata.no> <3E3A6071.6060102@namesys.com> <20030131115333.GC15359@marowsky-bree.de> <3E3A67AE.4050601@namesys.com> <20030131122147.GE15359@marowsky-bree.de> <3E3A6D76.7080300@namesys.com> <20030131123943.GH15359@marowsky-bree.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030131123943.GH15359@marowsky-bree.de> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Lars Marowsky-Bree Cc: Hans Reiser , reiserfs-list@namesys.com Hello! On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 01:39:43PM +0100, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > Woot? Mainline tends to crash under Oracle or SAP, for example, lacks drivers > etc. Yeah, this is a problem, but don't bitch at the distros about it, but at > the driver developers etc. Distro kernels tend to crash in unusual places, too. E.g. SuSE 8.1 default kernel breaking under memory pressure. RedHat 8.0 default kernel with slow block devices and ext3 bugs. And so on. > > I am not really opposed to vendors shipping their own kernels and > > supporting them, but I am opposed to them not supporting an official > > stable Marcelo kernel unless they have a specific reason not to. > This is a pointless discussion. The specific argument is "Support cost". End > of discussion. That's true. And these days bosses tend to save on people and buy cheap support from vendors instead. Bye, Oleg