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Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:43:48 -0700
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On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:10:08 -0700 "Eric Barrett"
<eric.barrett@onstor.com> wrote:

> > Please don't group this week's Redhat intern charged with putting
> > together a kernel with a Debian kernel package maintainer.  Also try
> to
> > remember that a distro isn't a kernel and vice versa.  I run Debian
> but
> > I don't run one of their kernels.  So this isn't a distro-centric
> issue.
> 
> I've been using Linux since the 0.99 kernels and Slackware 1.1, so I'm
> well aware that a kernel and distro aren't the same.  My point was
> that no major distro out there uses the stock kernel.org code out of
> the box.

<slap>OK, but why was that your point?<slap>

> > > A good example of how badly kernels can break -- we installed
> > > stock Linux 2.6.22 on beast (the data warehouse system) and dd
> > > performance dropped from 110MB/sec to 2.  Yes, two.
> >
> > Doesn't imply a breakage in the kernel.  More like a breakage in our
> > filer.  Although maybe your implication that Trondie is slipping in
> > some NFS code that would give competitors a headache is always
> possible.
> 
> Well, I tried it against a Solaris NFS server and got the same
> results. Since I was rebooting a production machine to troubleshoot,
> I stopped when
> I got it working again, so I never did track down what the problem was
> or
> where, precisely, it broke.  It might have even been in the network or
> (Ethernet) driver layer.
> 
> Also, Trond wouldn't do something like that, and I didn't mean to
> imply that he would.  Maybe you were joking, though, and my joke
> meter is just broken.

Sure he would, that rat bastard.  He just wouldn't do anything that
anyone could *prove*  ~:^)  I kid, I kid.  I joke, I joke.

Cheers,

a
