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Enterprise distributions suck and free software rules

Enterprise distributions suck and free software rules

Posted Mar 8, 2011 4:18 UTC (Tue) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
In reply to: Enterprise distributions suck and free software rules by dlang
Parent article: Enterprise distributions and free software

I have to say I really haven't had this problem, even when running triple digit numbers of systems I can't think of the last time i've had an RHEL update go bad, kernel or otherwise.


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Enterprise distributions suck and free software rules

Posted Mar 8, 2011 13:20 UTC (Tue) by SEJeff (subscriber, #51588) [Link]

RHEL 4.5 was a disaster of an upgrade:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=327591

Redhat took all of the upstream nfs client "fixes" that google primarily wrote and backported them to RHEL4. It did not go so well. The best thing I got out of working on this bug was ninja-level nfs debugging experience. See comment 8 for the secret sauce.

Enterprise distributions suck and free software rules

Posted Mar 8, 2011 18:21 UTC (Tue) by ricwheeler (subscriber, #4980) [Link]

NFS client patches that google wrote?

Are you confusing google (no interest in NFS) with NetApp which employs Trond, the upstream client maintainer?

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