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 -- [email protected] mailing list
