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From: Kip Macy <kmacy@netapp.com>
To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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Subject: Re: ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption
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> Alan Cox wrote:
> > 
> > > Don't use RedHat with ReiserFS, they screw things up so many ways.....
> > > For instance, they compile it with the wrong options set, their boot scripts are wrong, they just
> > > shovel software onto the CD.
> > 
> > Sorry Hans you can rant all you like but you know you are wrong on most
> > of that. RH did weeks of stress testing on multiple systems up to 8Gb 8 way
> > and didn't ship until we stopped seeing corruption problems with the mm/fs
> > code.

Sorry Alan, but even though I am sure Redhat did lots of stress testing,
Redhat 7.1 was not a particularly solid release. I got oopses in the
eepro100 driver even though lots of other people use it, and the netapp
simulator which works just fine on 2.2.16 does not work on it. When I ran
strace on the simulator while it was zeroing some files it turned out that
sys_write was failing with ENOMEM (on a machine with 1GB of RAM that was 
not doing anything else).

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