Re: [vserver] Up-to-date stable version?

From: Jeffrey 'jf' Lim <jfs.world_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue 11 Aug 2009 - 14:04:15 BST
Message-ID: <4b3125cc0908110604y28c1b32fvdac6eec7f54a5f2b@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 05:02:13PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 22:50 +0200, Claus Herwig wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > as I've to compile a new kernel for one of my vserver boxes, it's
> > > time to come back to this much loved question:
> > >
> > > Which (vanilla) kernel and which vserver patch version should I use
> > > for a production system?
> > >
> > > I know this question isn't entirely new, but even after scanning
> > > through the last months of mailing list posts I'm missing a simple
> > > answer ;-)
> > >
> > > The website states 2.6.22.19 + vs2.2.0.7, which is, well, ancient
> > > (1.5 years old i.E.)
> > >
> > > A second look at the website says 2.6.30.1 + vs2.3.0.36.14, which is
> > > experimental, what (at least for me) means that I shouldn't use it
> > > on a production system.
> > >
> > > Then I read in some other post, that it is of course useable in
> > > production - which just leads to another question: Why is it called
> > > experimental?
>
> > Funny, I was looking at this today as I need to rebuild one of our
> > vserver hosts. We've been using kernel 2.6.28 and 29. We've had a few
> > issues - a nasty kernel bug in both that occasionally requires a cold
> > boot (!) and constant segfaults in OSSEC. We've needed to be on those
> > kernels because of even worse problems with iSCSI in older kernels and
> > we've learned to avoid the hang problem. It still scares the living
> > daylights out of me and we are eagerly awaiting 2.6.30 which apparently
> > fixes this bug. However, when I mouse over the link to 2.6.30.1 +
> > vs2.3.0.36.14, it still says pre3 so I am assuming it is not yet ready
> > for even daring production. Is that true? Thanks - John
>
> the person supposed to update (i.e. volunteered to maintain the
> list on the wiki) obviously didn't do so for some time now,
> and therefore it would be good to read the 'red note' above the
> experimental matrix and check out:
>
> http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Experimental/
>

that's great - except that this is merely a list of files without that info
which says while patch is "development", vs "experimental"? Obviously, it's
great to have access here (damn the outdated list!!!), but I think we
probably need more help here...

-jf
Received on Tue Aug 11 14:04:36 2009

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