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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 16:57:21 +0000 (GMT)
From: James Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk>
To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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Subject: Re: [reiserfs-list] ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink 
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On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Hans Reiser wrote:

> Alan Cox wrote:
> > 
> > > In an __init function, have some code that will trigger the bug.
> > > This can be used to disable Reiserfs if the compiler was bad.
> > > Then the admin gets a printk() and the Reiserfs mount fails.
> > 
> > Thats actually quite doable. I'll see about dropping the test into -ac that
> > way.
> NOOOOO!!!!!! It should NOT fail at mount time, it should fail at compile time.

A simple "make test" to run this sort of automated sanity check would be
good, I think?


James.

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