[geeks] Linux 2.5

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:31:38PM +0100, Mike Meredith wrote:

> I've had some unpleasant experiences with ext3fs though ... a number of 
> kernel panics on a cache cluster member (ext3fs was only used for the 
> o/s ... reiserfs for the data), and another Linux server. Kernel 2.4.19 
> *might* have sorted those panics.

I've known people to have trouble with reiserfs and xfs and jfs.  I
don't really know many people who've done major work with ext3fs
though.  But, hey, roll back to ext2fs is supposed to be real easy, and
the upgrade doesn't require reformatting.

I keep meaning to have spare machines for playing with various things,
but it never seems to go well.  It turns out that the PC I'd earmarked
to be a Gnustep machine has a bad power supply, or mother board.

Now, if something wants to run nicely on a PM7100 or a SS Classic, then
I have a machine to play with, otherwise I don't.  Eitherway, I don't
really have time either.  Thus, why I like things that are relatively
safe and go on easily.  That was the main reason I automatically bought
a Geforce3 when I needed a faster video card rather then exploring the
radeon line.  I just powered down, popped it in, and it just worked.  Of
course, that was helped by the fact that the previous card was a TNT2.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd