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From: David Konerding <dek_ml@konerding.com>
To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)@localhost
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "mount -o loop" lockup issue
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 00:32:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AC05024.747A2AD6@konerding.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14hkwq-0002y0-00@the-village.bc.nu>

Alan Cox wrote:

> > It's a bug in Linux 2.4.2, fixed in later versions.  Regression/quality control
> > testing would
> > have caught this, but the developers usually just break things and wait for people
> > to complain
> > as their "Regression" testers.
>
> Hardly. We knew it was broken since well before 2.4.0. It just got a little
> interesting to fix.

And this is described in what release notes?  It worked just fine on Red Hat 7.0's 2.4
kernel.... oh wait, I see that they fixed it before they released it.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-03-27  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-27  1:56 "mount -o loop" lockup issue David E. Weekly
2001-03-27  3:31 ` Jason Madden
2001-03-27  3:50   ` David Konerding
2001-03-27  4:19     ` Alan Cox
2001-03-27  8:32       ` David Konerding [this message]
2001-03-27 13:24         ` Mohammad A. Haque
2001-03-27 18:51           ` J Sloan
2001-03-27 19:33             ` Alexander Viro
2001-03-27  5:30     ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-27  8:13       ` David Konerding
2001-03-27 12:31         ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-27 13:51         ` Kernel QA James Lewis Nance
2001-03-27 18:02           ` Shawn Starr
2001-03-27 22:09           ` Alexander Valys
2001-03-27 16:25         ` "mount -o loop" lockup issue Alan Cox
2001-03-27  3:50   ` Mohammad A. Haque
2001-03-27  3:59   ` William Stearns
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-03-27 19:25 Joerg Pommnitz

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