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Re: Heads up! AFS problem with IRIX 6.5.7 is of significant impact.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Tue May 9 18:03:32 2000
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To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
cc: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>, Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, owls@MIT.EDU,
release-team@MIT.EDU, brianb@sgi.com, jasonuhl@csd.sgi.com,
rar@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 May 2000 11:35:52 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 18:03:22 -0400
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
> > Bob: What would we lose if we did 8.4 based on IRIX 6.5.4?
>
> Assuming we can apply the same or equivalent patches to fix the major
> problems we had with 6.5.3 (system hangs, NFS data corruption), I don't
> know offhand of any critical bug fixes we would miss out on.
It looks like there's an equivalent patch to 6.5.4 for the system hang
bug, but not for the NFS corruption problem (which is fixed in 6.5.7).
So we would need to come up with a fix for the latter somehow.
Also, we were planning to apply patch 3913 to 6.5.7, to fix a cron leap
year problem, but it cannot be applied to 6.5.4, and I haven't found an
equivalent patch.
Bob
