Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 04 Sep 1999 14:11:32 -0600 | From | Bill Anderson <> | Subject | Re: RAID is a matter of availability, not data security |
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Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > In article <cistron.37C2FF6D.57FC6B92@heliosam.fr>, > Hubert Tonneau <hubert.tonneau@heliosam.fr> wrote: > >So what I wanted to express is that if you say the new code is not perfect, > >so we don't include it, it has to be balanced with the fact that not including > >the code means ignoring hardware failures. > > Including new code in development kernels is fine, but not in maintenance > releases of a stable kernel series if it is not backward compatible enough.
There are a great many of us using it in 2.2.x already. Rock solid from my experience, in testing and production environments. Sounds pretty 'backward compatible' with the 2.2 kernel to me. or were you talking about a different backwards compatibility?
Bill
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