| gabriel rosenkoetter on Mon, 4 Feb 2002 18:50:30 +0100 |
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[Again, I ask you to please wrap your lines at a sane column. It really is a drag for those of us on sane terminals. Attributing quotes would be nice too.] On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:28:32AM -0500, Mike Leone wrote: > >Changing a bunch of text files that you can easily get back from > > a central server is drastic? > Sure can, if for some reason you kernel panic afterwards. Simpler > to ask advice from an experienced person first, than have to > (possibly) go thru some recovery process. Huh? All I asked was whether you'd applied the patches. Changing source code had really better not affect the running kernel. How could any of this cause a kernel panic? At any rate, patch should store the old version of all patched files as foo.orig. Backing patches out is really easy. > It *seems* a bit faster. Nothing drastic. Sure is noticeably > after a hard freeze and reset, tho. :-) Sure, but boot time is drastically different between journaled and log-structured file systems and regular file systems for obvious reasons. :^> -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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