On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 15:46, Hans Fugal wrote: > > I haven't, but be warned that you could nuke your filesystem. > Why?
They have been doing some heavy work on the ``corner cases'' in the
kernel with context switching, lock breaking, preemption, etc. If your
kernel is trying to access your block device, and shared data gets
corrupted because of a yet unfound bug introduced by such changes where
a semaphore isn't used where it should be (or interrupts are not
disabled, etc.), then you could wind up writing garbage to your disk
rather than a nice inode.
Mike
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