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Kernel release status
The current 2.6 development kernel is 2.6.27-rc5, released on August 28.
"The most exciting (well, for me personally - my life is apparently
too boring for words) was how we had some stack overflows that totally
corrupted some basic thread data structures. That's exciting because we
haven't had those in a long time. The cause turned out to be a somewhat
overly optimistic increase in the maximum NR_CPUS value, but it also caused
some introspection about our stack usage in general." More
excitement can be found in the
full changelog.
Fixes continue to flow into the mainline repository; the 2.6.27-rc6 prepatch can be expected sometime soon. No stable kernel releases have been made over the last week. The 2.6.25.17 and 2.6.26.4 stable updates are in the review process as of this writing; they can be expected on or after September 6. (Log in to post comments)
Kernel release status Posted Sep 4, 2008 11:53 UTC (Thu) by nowster (subscriber, #67) [Link] One thing to be aware of is that the 2.6.27rc series has broken the expected behaviour of -o remount on XFS. This can cause problems if your root fs is XFS and you have any options other than defaults in your /etc/fstab entry.
Kernel release status Posted Sep 10, 2008 4:36 UTC (Wed) by pradeeps (guest, #53816) [Link]
Commonly used distros won't allow you to use xfs as your / partition. Moreover with the amount of files a / patition may deal with, reiserfs/ext3 is a better option.
Kernel release status Posted Sep 10, 2008 13:57 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
sounds like a good reason to pick a different distro
Kernel release status Posted Oct 6, 2008 21:06 UTC (Mon) by RobertBrockway (guest, #48927) [Link]
Debian supports XFS for /, and it is pretty commonly used.
A certain distro identified by a piece of headware doesn't support XFS out of the box and so this makes installing it as / more difficult. I can't think of a distro that explicitely tells you that you can't use XFS as the / FS. That would be bad practice and goes against the the rule that *nix tries not to presume how you will use the system.
I use XFS for / all the time. Mixing filesystems on a box can complicate things like backups/disaster recovery so I wouldn't do it without a good reason.
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