"binks" when using newer kernels

[Oron Peled]

On 30.05.2009 Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> On Saturday 30 May 2009 13:35:55 you wrote:
> > My SOHO server uses an ext4 /home partition in the last 5 months (since
> > Fedora-10 bundled it) without a hitch.
>
> http://www.tllts.org/dl.php?episode=300&submit=Submit
> 
> I recommend you to listen to this podcast, in which The Linux Link Tech show 
> intervue Ted T'so. He explains the problems in EXT4 and how distros are 
> backporting features to earlier kernels. There are still a few bugs to be 
> found.

Yes, I've read about these problems before, which is why I emphasized
my experience. Thanks to this interview I now know why (Ted mentions
specific steps taken by a Fedora maintainer which is also one
of the *upstream* developers of ext4).

> Oron, I kindly disagree with you. The problems are now starting:
> only now the code is going to be used widly, only now the developers
> can see how it works on non-developers machines.

I don't know about your distribution. F10 has been shipping and
updating the KMS and video drivers during the last 5 months
(and as I said earlier, it was very buggy in the beginning).

This code has been used by a lot more than KMS developers machines:

  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics

This doesn't mean there are no bugs. But claiming we are just
starting the bug squashing now is far fetched.

Cheers,

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