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

From: James Sutherland (jas88@cam.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Feb 05 2001 - 11:57:21 EST


On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Hans Reiser wrote:

> Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > In an __init function, have some code that will trigger the bug.
> > > This can be used to disable Reiserfs if the compiler was bad.
> > > Then the admin gets a printk() and the Reiserfs mount fails.
> >
> > Thats actually quite doable. I'll see about dropping the test into -ac that
> > way.
> NOOOOO!!!!!! It should NOT fail at mount time, it should fail at compile time.

A simple "make test" to run this sort of automated sanity check would be
good, I think?

James.

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