From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 6 May 2002 02:30:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 6 May 2002 02:30:36 -0400 Received: from melancholia.rimspace.net ([210.23.138.19]:40456 "EHLO melancholia.danann.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 6 May 2002 02:30:35 -0400 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Linux-2.5.14.. In-Reply-To: From: Daniel Pittman Organization: Not today, thank you, Mother. Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 16:30:28 +1000 Message-ID: <87g015bxff.fsf@enki.rimspace.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) XEmacs/21.5 (bamboo, i686-pc-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 5 May 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote: > There's a lot of stuff that has happened in the 2.5.x series lately, > and you can see the gory details in the ChangeLog files that accompany > releases these days, but I thought I'd point out 2.5.14, since it has > some interesting fundamental changes to how dirty state is maintained > in the VM. > > (The big changes were actually in 2.5.12, but 2.5.13 contained various > minor fixes and tweaks, and 2.5.14 contains a number of fixes > especially wrt truncate, so hopefully it's fairly _stable_ as of > 2.5.14.) >>From the look of the changelog at least a few of the file corruption bugs with ext3, 2k block file systems and 2.5 have been fixed. Should I expect this release to address the problems I was seeing? Daniel -- I keep my head above the surface, trying to breath, looking for land. I keep an eye at the distant horizon waiting for help, clutching the sky. -- Covenant, _Phoenix_