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When is 2.6.16 stable? [message #7003] Fri, 29 September 2006 15:43 Go to next message
hanspommer is currently offline  hanspommer
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Greetings

Is there any time frame for the release of the mentioned version or at least kind of release candidates?
I keep seeing "test" releases for quite some time now and was wondering what's the risk of these test version today given that they are "converging" to a stable version.

Thanks for any pointers
hp

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Re: When is 2.6.16 stable? [message #7005 is a reply to message #7003] Fri, 29 September 2006 17:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
jason|xoxide is currently offline  jason|xoxide
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Well, it's been posted that they're going to move to 2.6.18 soon, so who really knows.

http://forum.openvz.org/index.php?t=msg&th=1030&star t=0&

If you're asking whether the .16test releases are stable, I haven't had any problems.

Jason Litka
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Re: When is 2.6.16 stable? [message #7007 is a reply to message #7005] Fri, 29 September 2006 18:30 Go to previous messageGo to next message
hanspommer is currently offline  hanspommer
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Thanks for the info! Exactly, I was thinking about the OpenVZ kernel version ones. I'm just curious why it takes so long to get a "stab" out on a 2.6.16 (well now it's already a 2.6.18) based kernel version.

Is the OpenVZ team perhaps waiting on a major move e.g. by Linus Torwalds before going "stab" ? Or are there other dependencies i.e. as long Red Hat Enterprise 4 (based on 2.6.8, I believe) is around we will stick with 2.6.8 also on the OpenVZ side?

Just curious...
hp

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Re: When is 2.6.16 stable? [message #7010 is a reply to message #7003] Fri, 29 September 2006 18:39 Go to previous messageGo to next message
jason|xoxide is currently offline  jason|xoxide
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Actually, RHEL4 is built on 2.6.9, not 2.6.8.

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Re: When is 2.6.16 stable? [message #7016 is a reply to message #7010] Fri, 29 September 2006 22:27 Go to previous messageGo to next message
hanspommer is currently offline  hanspommer
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faire enough, a reason less to stick with 2.6.8 and move to 2.6.18 Wink

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Re: When is 2.6.16 stable? [message #7020 is a reply to message #7003] Sat, 30 September 2006 15:14 Go to previous message
jason|xoxide is currently offline  jason|xoxide
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Stability is the key to virtualization. If the developers don't believe that the newer kernels are as stable then I believe that they should stick with the older base.

I would actually like to see the test kernels move to 2.6.18 and the stable moved to 2.6.9 (based on the RHEL4u4 patch set). Moving to the RHEL4u4 kernel as the base would bring in new users who are afraid to use a lower kernel version than their OS came with and are also hesitant to use a kernel labeled as "test".

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