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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
