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Subject: Re: "mount -o loop" lockup issue
To: dek_ml@konerding.com (David Konerding)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 17:25:46 +0100 (BST)
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> It's even worse that these are obvious, simple bugs (like the "NFS doesn't
> work over reiserfs
> because somebody changed the VFS layer and didn't fix any filesystems but
> ext2" that I reported a while ago) which would have been caught by a
> little testing.

Again people knew about this. It was a chosen decision that 2.4.x shouldnt
support NFS over reiserfs.  If you want an extensively QA'd, signed off
kernel tree then wait for vendors to release one.

Alan

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