Roger Heflin wrote:
Fedora ships buggy kernels. As stated previously this is more
upstream's fault,
Beg your pardon, but just because someone writes broken code that
_does not_ force a distribution to ship it.
The problem is that the enterprise OS's ship buggy kernels too,
Yes, but they very, very rarely introduce new bugs in an update that
breaks a previously working system.
I have
found at least one bug in most of the recent enterprise kernels (RHEL3,
RHEL4, RHEL5 and SLES9-never tested SLES10), and some of those bugs were
very very ugly had at least one of them had long since been fixed
upstream, and at least one of those bugs *NEVER* existed in the
kernel.org kernels at all.
And the timeline between reporting the bug and getting the fix was...?
And lets take RHEL5 initial release, it did not support file systems
larger then 8TB (ext3 only, no XFS), it did not support Areca and 3ware
PCIe controllers even though those drivers had been out for 6+ months at
the time they shipped RHEL5, and those are most definitely enterprise
boards. And the second you add a driver and/or XFS on to RHEL5 you are
now tainted and *UNSUPPORTED*.
Do you have some point here - like a system that always supports
everything and never fails? I usually don't have as much of a problem
having to fiddle with a new machine where you obviously aren't already
relying on it or getting known-supported hardware when I don't have time
to fiddle as I do with updates breaking previously working things. But,
have you tried the Centosplus kernels that put xfs and the drivers that
rhel removes back?
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Les Mikesell
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