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Message-ID: <20190916231536.e3grha2tqtdcrym7@srcf.ucam.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 00:15:36 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@...il.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
Vito Caputo <vcaputo@...garu.com>,
"Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@...il.com>,
Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@...inter.de>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Ray Strode <rstrode@...hat.com>,
William Jon McCann <mccann@....edu>,
zhangjs <zachary@...shancloud.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 5.3-rc8
On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 04:13:36AM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> 17.09.2019 04:11, Matthew Garrett пишет:
> > In one case we have "Systems don't boot, but you can downgrade your
> > kernel"
>
> You can't. There are way too many dedicated server providers where there is
> no IPMI or any equivalent, and the only help that the staff can do is to
> reinstall, wiping your data.
In which case you're presumably running a distro kernel that's had a
decent amount of testing before you upgrade to it?
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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