Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 17:24:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 17:24:47 -0400 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:33293 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 17:24:38 -0400 Subject: Re: ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption To: reiser@namesys.com (Hans Reiser) Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 22:24:42 +0100 (BST) Cc: "pcg( Marc)"@goof.com (A. Lehmann), alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), menion@srci.iwpsd.org (Joshua Schmidlkofer), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (kernel) In-Reply-To: from "Hans Reiser" at Jul 28, 2001 01:13:36 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL5] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing > Let us be a bit more precise here. If you click on the help button when deciding whether to select > that option it tells you not to do it. What can you say about a distro that doesn't read the help > buttons for the kernel options when configuring the kernel? Shovelware? The alternative was to disable it. Because at the time we had lots of good evidence it didnt work reliably. Evidence backed up by the pile of later Chris Mason patches. - 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/