From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266316AbUGJR5W (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2004 13:57:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266324AbUGJR5W (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2004 13:57:22 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net ([216.148.227.85]:33258 "EHLO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266316AbUGJR5V (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2004 13:57:21 -0400 Message-ID: <40F02E05.8090401@namesys.com> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:57:25 -0700 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: Dave Jones , jmerkey@comcast.net, Pete Harlan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Ext3 File System "Too many files" with snort References: <070920041920.2370.40EEEFFD000B341B000009422200763704970A059D0A0306@comcast.net> <40EF797E.6060601@namesys.com> <20040710083347.GC6386@redhat.com> <40F02963.5040500@namesys.com> <20040710174432.GA18719@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20040710174432.GA18719@infradead.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.3.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig wrote: >On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 10:37:39AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: > > >>Fedora is something new. It is good that fedora tracks the mainline. >>Kudos for that. You should do that with RHEL. >> >> > >Does someone volunteer to sponsor Hans a free "Release Managment 101" course? > > > > RHEL applies all sorts of patches that have not been tested in mainline, and then tells its customers that it is more stable when the reverse is true. RHEL should pick a stable mainline kernel 6 weeks after it has proven stable, and use it. Their not applying reiserfs bugfixes that are present in the mainline is just more evidence that they don't care about stability as much as marketing. Lindows does it right. Hans