Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 00:32:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 00:32:43 -0500 Received: from 1-227.cwb-adsl.telepar.net.br ([200.193.160.227]:6673 "EHLO imladris.rielhome.conectiva") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 00:32:35 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 02:30:58 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel To: David Konerding cc: Jason Madden , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: "mount -o loop" lockup issue In-Reply-To: <3AC00E05.47C264D9@konerding.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, David Konerding 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. As said before, we're interested in people willing to do regression tests on the kernel. Unfortunately, not all that many testers have stepped forward and not all that many artificial tests are being run. Good thing we still have the beta-testers to catch these things, while running the kernel in real-world scenarios... ;) regards, Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com.br/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/