linux-kernel - Re: Hi! I've noticed that kernel.org advertises 2.6.28 as "The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is".

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Date:	Mon, 29 Dec 2008 04:21:24 -0500
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Igor Podlesny <for.poige+linux@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: Hi! I've noticed that kernel.org advertises 2.6.28 as "The
	latest stable version of the Linux kernel is".

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:39:55PM +0700, Igor Podlesny wrote:
> -- Copying several rather big files (~ 25--45 GiB) from XFS on LVM-2
> on MDraid partition to another one, I had the system rebooted both
> with 2.6.28 and 2.6.27.10 (accomplished using 2.6.24.7-rt(sic!)25). As
> you probably understand, that's the case you even can't trace where's
> the problem, at least on a desktop with GUI, not on server with plain
> text display. Although, I'm afraid even text display wouldn't had a
> chance to show anything, tracing that problem.

You don't have 4K_STACKs enabled by default, do you? 

And instead of these rants bug reports would be more useful.
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