Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink

2001-02-02 Thread John Morrison
Lets not go overboard Alan ;-) > > It makes sense to refuse to build a piece of the kernel if it break's > > a machine - anything else is a timebomb waiting to explode. > > The logical conclusion of that is to replace the entire kernel tree with > > #error "compiler or program might have a bug

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink

2001-02-02 Thread John Morrison
My last comment on this... It makes sense to refuse to build a piece of the kernel if it break's a machine - anything else is a timebomb waiting to explode. I feel politics are at play here...I don't really care who's bug it is - all I know is using pre 2.96 fixes it and everyone needs to be a

Re: [reiserfs-list] ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlinkrelated)

2001-02-02 Thread John Morrison
Recompile with pre 2.96. John > Hello, > > with ReiserFS support in 2.4.1 I have decided to give it a try. > I created a filesystem on a spare partition, mounted it as /mnt, > and tried to use it. The kernel crashed - I am able to reproduce it > with the following steps: > > - boo

Re: [reiserfs-list] major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSELinux)

2001-01-09 Thread John Morrison
I can't reproduce this. [root@vaio /root]# mkdir "$(perl -e 'print "x" x 768')" [root@vaio /root]# ls