Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 14:23:02 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: quota deadlock on 6.1-RC1 Message-ID: <20060502182302.GA92027@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <4457A02C.9040408@rogers.com> References: <20060502171853.GG753@dimma.mow.oilspace.com> <20060502172225.GA90840@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060502174429.GH753@dimma.mow.oilspace.com> <44579EE1.6010300@rogers.com> <20060502180557.GA91762@xor.obsecurity.org> <4457A02C.9040408@rogers.com>
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--ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 02:08:44PM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 02:03:13PM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > > =20 > >>Ditto, same thing with the recent nve fixes. Why release known broken= =20 > >>code when there are tested patches available? Whats the worst that will= =20 > >>happen? It wont work? Thats already the case... > >> =20 > > > >What patches? If you're talking about the mpsafe quota patches, they > >don't address the deadlocks. > > =20 >=20 > The fix to nve timeouts found on the amd64 list. OK, I can't speak to that issue specifically. Generally, though, the worst that can happen is "you fix one problem affecting a subset of users and replace it with a larger problem affecting a larger subset of users". If there's doubt about the impact of a change, 10 seconds before the release is not the appropriate time to cram it in. Kris --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEV6OFWry0BWjoQKURApY6AJ4sA3HRtaFnBlSZ+cbJNR5u0rfaYQCgkk3I UgL63b74boxAVVdrMFsDwFY= =Lx4F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW--
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