[geeks] Linux 2.5

[Mike Meredith]

On Wednesday 30 October 2002 9:08 pm, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> It also seems that you shouldn't use this kernel at all if you have a
> nvidia card with the nvidia supplied driver :(

Ur ... it *is* a development kernel, so you can't really expect it to be 
perfect.

> And, it also appears that things like devfs will be required.  I've
> been meaning to enable it anyway, along with ext3fs.  Has anyone here
> played with devfs?  It looks much saner than the current /dev system
> most unixs employ.

I'm not sure about playing with it, but it's a "requirement" with Gentoo 
Linux (well it isn't really, but that's how it's initially installed) 
and it seems ok. 

I've had some unpleasant experiences with ext3fs though ... a number of 
kernel panics on a cache cluster member (ext3fs was only used for the 
o/s ... reiserfs for the data), and another Linux server. Kernel 2.4.19 
*might* have sorted those panics.