Re: Linux 2.4.18

Andreas Dilger (adilger@turbolabs.com)
Mon, 25 Feb 2002 20:06:28 -0700

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On Feb 25, 2002 19:28 -0500, Eric Krout wrote:
> > Bernd Eckenfels <ecki-news2002-02@lina.inka.de> writes:
> > > I dont understand why it is a problem to release 2.4.19 instead.
>
> If, hypothetically speaking of course, one were to start downloading a
> file that was a couple dozen megabytes in size and leave it going
> overnight on their dial-up connection only to awake and find that they
> had an outdated file, I could imagine them being quite pissed ;-)

Well, that's what incremental patches are for.

Cheers, Andreas

-- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/

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