Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes:
> On Monday 21 May 2001 07:46, Arsalan Zaidi wrote:
> > We tried the RPM under RH 6.2 and it would unpack, saying we needed this or
> > that or the other... A whole bunch of dependencies.
>
> > I just want to be sure... there's no compelling reason to use RH 7.x
> > (basically any new distribution with newer libraries) right? Are there any
> > subtle problems we'd face if we continue using this setup?
>
> RedHat 7.1 is a substantial upgrade for more than one reason. Performance is
> better, and stability (at least for me) has been just as good.
The 2.4 kernels make sure that fdatasync() works properly, which could
improve performance in certain scenarious quite a bit.
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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.
