ZFS Finally Lands In Debian

[SirMaster]

I certainly hope not. It should be regularly updated in unstable and maybe in testing, but stable is supposed to be stable.

But how are deadlocks, kernel panics, and data corruption bugs considered "stable" when a newer release has fixed them but we don't get those critical bug fixes?

We get immediate patches that fix bugs in our security systems like OpenSSL because it's important.

Is our data stored on our filesystem not also important enough to be regularly getting patches for the bugs that can crash our whole system or corrupt our data?

[jacob]

But how are deadlocks, kernel panics, and data corruption bugs considered "stable" when a newer release has fixed them but we don't get those critical bug fixes?

We get immediate patches that fix bugs in our security systems like OpenSSL because it's important.

Is our data stored on our filesystem not also important enough to be regularly getting patches for the bugs that can crash our whole system or corrupt our data?

Clearly it shouldn't reach stable if it has known deadlocks or kernel panics.

[starshipeleven]

Clearly it shouldn't reach stable if it has known deadlocks or kernel panics.

SirMaster is probably oblivious about the fact that Debian stable does update the kernel too, but between minor versions, those that backport stability/security enhancements from newer kernels.

For example my debian system updated the 3.16 kernel a month or so ago, to get in sync with kernel 3.16.35 from upstream https://www.kernel.org/

Ok, I've got the 4.5 from backports so I'm using it only as a fallback, but I do recognize that it is a useful feature for other usecases.

[starshipeleven]

OH GOD THIS UNAPPROVED AGAIN

THE NERVES

AAAAAARGH

On a more relevant note, above this post will probably appear something someday. I hope. :/

[starshipeleven]

good, my post appeared, SirMaster and jacob

[oibaf]

Just notice it is in contrib repository, not the main one.