linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.29

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Message-ID: <20090403003256.GE3795@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Date:	Thu, 2 Apr 2009 20:32:56 -0400
From:	lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Rees <drees76@...il.com>, Jesper Krogh <jesper@...gh.cc>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29

On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 07:27:15PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> To play with, definitely.  For production use, I'll have to let you
> make your own judgements.  I've been using it on my laptop since July.

Well I made a 75GB ext4 just to store temporary virtual machine images
to play with.  I won't be upset if I loose those.

> At the moment, there's only one bug which I'm very concerned about,
> being worked here:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/330824
> 
> But a number of community distro's will be supporting it within the
> next month or two.  So it's definitely getting there.  As we increase
> the user base, we'll turn up more of the harder-to-reproduce bugs, but
> hopefully we'll get them fixed quickly.

Well pretty soon I will probably consider switching to that.  btrfs sounds
neat and all, but I will wait for the disk format to get finalized first.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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