OK. That clears up the confusion. I'm still on track to get the SuSE 7.0 developer edition. :) Thanks! Christopher Reimer On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Michael Hasenstein wrote:
"Christopher D. Reimer" wrote:
Please elaborate. My understanding is that the 2.4.x kernel series will have support for a >2GB file system, but SuSE 7.0 won't have the 2.4.x kernel. (I saw on the website that it will have an "unofficial" 2.2.17 kernel instead.) Now I did see a 64-bit file system mentioned on the
It has a 2.2.16 plus 4-5 MB of patches, so the marketing people descibed it as 2.2.17. Which is a reasonable compromise between doing nothing and doing something absolutely wrong, doing nothing is bad because the stock 2.2.16 has quite a lot of problems which our kernel does not have; saying it's 2.2.17 is bad because only Linus can release a 2.2.17, so they say it's 'almost a 2.2.17'.
website. Is that the same thing that's supposed to come out with the 2.4.x series, or is the 64-bit file system is something that SuSE's is adding on?
The 64bit filesize support is a backport to 2.2. Just like the 4GB mem patch is a backport of Andrea Arcangelis (SuSE Italy) 2.4 memory management stuff.
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