On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:57:29AM +0800, Horatio B. Bogbindero wrote:
> >
> > .. and get some of that new VM performance goodness .. (_finally_ I can
> > stopper my ears against the yells of the FreeBSD crowd that their VM is
> > better)
>
> not only that but with netfilter and all the other network goodies...and
> with devfs(if a distro implements it...LVM...argghhh!)...and non-blocking
> SMP... 2.4 is a macho kernel...wow!
If I remember correctly, LVM is already part of the latest SuSE
distro... but not with the new kernel though. Anyways, wrt to
LVM, I got the chance to play with it (on a box with RedHat 6.2 +
updates + helix and kernel 2.4.0 + reiserfs + LVM) during the
weekend, and resizing filesystems online got me so excited!
Wrt netfilter, it comes with loadable ipfwadm and ipchains
modules that provide backwards compatibility with the older
filtering tools. This means, no need to rewrite ipchains
filtering rules to the new format inorder to use it with the new
kernel.
> > but my problems are..
> >
> > 1) updating to 2.4.0 will require (to my knowledge) upgrades of glibc and
> > mod_utils only.. but glibc is like the most important bit after the
> > kernel.. will it break my beloved oracle 8.1.7 enterprise edition
> > install? (no, not production, just my toy)
The Changes file does not specifically require the newer glibc,
only modutils is mentioned. In fact, I'm still using the
following from RedHat updates even after the switch:
$ rpm -q glibc modutils
glibc-2.1.3-21
modutils-2.3.21-0.6.2
> > 2) will anything else break? i know i will need an updated DRM for my 3d
> > acceleration, but is there anything else to bite me in the *ss?
>
> nothing will be broken...well almost
> nothing. you have to deal with apps that are kernel friendly like ppp and
> pcmcia to name a few. but aside from that UPGRADE.
Nothing will break unless you try it out. :) Seriously, the only
main reference I had during the upgrade is the Changes file. As
an example, it even outlines the changes need (on
/etc/conf.modules) to make ppp work...
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