[gentoo-user] Do Debian's 2.6.18 problems exist in gentoo?

[gentoo-user] Do Debian's 2.6.18 problems exist in gentoo?

[Hendrik Boom]

I'm in the process of installing gentoo now, in the hope of getting it to
work more reliably (and more up-to-date) than Debian.  Debian's 2.6.18-3
kernel includes backported msync-optimising patches from 2.19 that don't
work properly and have the effect of sometimes causing serious file-system
damage. (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401006 if
you're curious about gory details).

What I was wondering was whether a similar misfortune has befallen
gentoo's 2.6.18 kernel, or whether gentoo's kernel developers have just
left the 2.6.19 patches in 2.6.19.

Maybe I'm being silly asking about this, but I have become paranoid about
severe file system damage.

-- hendrik


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Re: [gentoo-user] Do Debian's 2.6.18 problems exist in gentoo?

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:27:28 -0500
Hendrik Boom <hendrik@pooq.com> wrote:

> I'm in the process of installing gentoo now, in the hope of getting it to
> work more reliably (and more up-to-date) than Debian.  Debian's 2.6.18-3
> kernel includes backported msync-optimising patches from 2.19 that don't
> work properly and have the effect of sometimes causing serious file-system
> damage. (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401006 if
> you're curious about gory details).
> 
> What I was wondering was whether a similar misfortune has befallen
> gentoo's 2.6.18 kernel, or whether gentoo's kernel developers have just
> left the 2.6.19 patches in 2.6.19.
> 
> Maybe I'm being silly asking about this, but I have become paranoid about
> severe file system damage.
> 
> -- hendrik

there are a number of kernels you can install in gentoo - see inside the directory /usr/portage/sys-kernel. You can also see what patches have been applied by looking at the ebuilds.
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[gentoo-user] Re: Do Debian's 2.6.18 problems exist in gentoo?

[Mick]

Nick Rout wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:27:28 -0500
> Hendrik Boom <hendrik@pooq.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm in the process of installing gentoo now, in the hope of getting it to
>> work more reliably (and more up-to-date) than Debian.  Debian's 2.6.18-3
>> kernel includes backported msync-optimising patches from 2.19 that don't
>> work properly and have the effect of sometimes causing serious
>> file-system damage. (see
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401006 if you're curious
>> about gory details).
>> 
>> What I was wondering was whether a similar misfortune has befallen
>> gentoo's 2.6.18 kernel, or whether gentoo's kernel developers have just
>> left the 2.6.19 patches in 2.6.19.
>> 
>> Maybe I'm being silly asking about this, but I have become paranoid about
>> severe file system damage.
>> 
>> -- hendrik
> 
> there are a number of kernels you can install in gentoo - see inside the
> directory /usr/portage/sys-kernel. You can also see what patches have been
> applied by looking at the ebuilds.

You may also want to browse the devs ML where you may find announcements
similar to this:

http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_141891.xml
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Re: [gentoo-user] Do Debian's 2.6.18 problems exist in gentoo?

[Iain Buchanan]

On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 15:09 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:27:28 -0500
> Hendrik Boom <hendrik@pooq.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm in the process of installing gentoo now,

good! [snip]

> > What I was wondering was whether a similar misfortune has befallen
> > gentoo's 2.6.18 kernel, or whether gentoo's kernel developers have just
> > left the 2.6.19 patches in 2.6.19.
> > 
> > Maybe I'm being silly asking about this, but I have become paranoid about
> > severe file system damage.
> > 
> > -- hendrik
> 
> there are a number of kernels you can install in gentoo - see inside
> the directory /usr/portage/sys-kernel. You can also see what patches
> have been applied by looking at the ebuilds.

to those not familiar with gentoo: there is also a vanilla-sources
ebuild, which installs the kernel exactly as it is from kernel.org, with
no patches, if you want to go that way.

HTH,
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

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