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Subject: Re: "mount -o loop" lockup issue
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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.

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