Nick Rout wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:27:28 -0500 > Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
