Re: Release of 2.4.21

John Bradford
2003-03-22T08:14:20Z

> > Unless the system has to run 24/7, which a desktop machine usually
> > doesn't have to, I don't see why testing 2.5 on it isn't a
> > possibility.
>
> Because desktop systems usually don't feature the notion of a testbed,
> read an environment in which dangerous changes can be tested without
> severe loss of important data.

So why did you trim the part of my quote that said that production
systems should always be backed up anyway?

> I would never ever boot a 2.5.x kernel on my notebook or on any other=20
> machines without preparing a different harddrive for instance, YMMV
> though.

It's not exactly much work to put a different disk in a machine. With
a notebook, it might be 30-45 minutes work dismantling it, but on a
typical desktop, about 2 minutes, and on a rackmount server, probably
60 seconds.

John.