Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc3

Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-09-30T07:34:27Z

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On 09/30/2004 04:30 PM, James Bruce wrote:
| Clemens Schwaighofer wrote:
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|> | And thats one of the reasons I never dl the bz2 version.
|>
|> what has bz2 to do with that?
|
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| Some people believe bz2 to be buggy or otherwise less tolerant of
| corruption. For most people these things don't seem to come up; I've
| never had problems with either despite frequent work with large
| compressed datasets.

interesting, I always use bz2 where time is not so important, and I
never had problems with it.

| Linus decided that patches will always be off the previous
| non-extraversion tarball. Note that -rc3 is not relative to -rc2, so in
| that way its consistent. The reason Linus gave is that such
| trivial-but-important bugfixes may come *after* the next version has
| releases or release cantidates, so this is the only sane way. For
| example, if another tiny code bug motivated making a 2.6.8.2, the
| release cantidates shouldn't have to be rediffed. Hopefully it makes
| sense now :)

Yes, that makes it absolutly clear. Thank you.

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