Kernel upgrade to 2.4.21

I read that 2.4.21 has been released. I'm using Suse 8.0 Professional with 2.4.18 installed. Now I wonder if a) is it worth upgrading for such a minor number? b) can I upgrade with my Suse or will this have some negative impact on my installation? I guess not but I never did this so I'm a bit shy about it. c) will it have some negative impact on my system if I just upgrade the kernel and nothing else?

I have noticed that reiserfs doesn't always recover correctly after a crash and I had to files overwritten with binary data that didn't belong there. Now I wonder if reiserfs has been improved in this kernel. Anybody knows about

You can visit kernel.org and view the changes without downloading, however I just received a timeout from kernel.org so the site may be unusable at the moment.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog- 2.4.21

You can download a kernel and install it with the SuSe kernel that way, if SuSe 2.4.21 gives you problems you can revert back to 2.4.18 Suse kernels always have the ReiserFS compiled as a module and not built into the kernel. Personally, I have had no problems with the Reiser FS, only the odd flaky hard drive.

Last time I saw this was when there was problems with VIA chipsets and DMA in the 2.3.99..2.4.4 kernels. I've never seen this happen with any of the vanilla kernels since then, and I've got lots of ReiserFS partitions on my desktop.

in alt.os.linux.suse with

I already saved the file under an alternate name. Thanks for the tip.

I have two files I know for sure. There could be others as well, of course, where I nothing of. One was .viminfo which suddenly contained some ELF data and another one was a Makefile which also contained some data.