From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: Desaster Reiser Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 00:02:10 +0400 Message-ID: <3D77B842.1070702@namesys.com> References: <3D776FEF.F34E655B@tridentemonigotes.com> <20020905140942.B19752@namesys.com> <3D773A35.5070702@namesys.com> <3D778719.1030609@neuronet.pitt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: "Rafael E. Herrera" Cc: reiser Rafael E. Herrera wrote: > Hans Reiser wrote: > >> Let's put this a bit more strongly. 2.4.3 should never have shipped >> to users. It particularly has a ridiculously easy to hit bug in VFS >> that affected reiserfs that would have been found if there was a >> policy of test before shipping VFS changes. No one should be using >> it, and it is definitely worth your time to upgrade. >> >> We also have some not so easy but still possible to hit bugs in >> reiserfs up until 2.4.18. I suggest 2.4.19/18 which is known to be >> rock stable for us. 2.4.20-pre2 has some substantial performance >> improvements, but is more risky as it has not been as well tested. > > > I would suggest you add a statement like the above in your web site. We had one, but I decided that there were probably not a lot of remaing 2.4.3 users anymore after enough time went by. Use 2.4.18 or later kernels. Marcelo is doing a great job and things are stable by the time they stop having "pre" in their name.