Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

["Greg Freemyer" <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/7/06, Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru)" <andreil1@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Anyone have installed rernel 2.6.18_rc5 from SL-OSS-factory on SuSE 10.1 ?
> >
> > ftp.gwdg.de:/linux/suse/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/i586/kernel-smp-2.6.18_rc5_git6.rpm
>
> > Did this update break up something on 10.1 or require any extra updates?
>
> It needs at least a newer udev,
>
> Andreas

Andreas,

Can you say if a decision has been made for SUSE 10.2 to be 2.6.18
based?  I know it is in the factory, but it is not even released yet
in vanilla form so I wasn't sure how committed Novel is to the new
kernel.

Personally I really want to try out/use the new libata code that is in
2.6.18, so I hope it makes the release.

FYI: It is my impression that at least on my hardware SUSE 10.1 runs
SATA fairly slowly.  I haven't done a lot of benchmarks, but I
remember getting 4GB/min for a simple raw dd from /dev/sda to
/dev/null with older SUSE releases.  With SUSE 10.1, I'm only seeing
1GB/min in the few situations I've tried it.  (Same MB/etc. but
different disks.  I change out disks routinely in my job.)

Greg
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Greg Freemyer
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