From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Return-Path: <linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org>
Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand
	id <S261289AbRG0VY4>; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 17:24:56 -0400
Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org
	id <S264244AbRG0VYr>; 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 <S262355AbRG0VYi>; 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: <no.id> 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: <E15QF6A-0006Za-00@the-village.bc.nu>
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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.