Date:	Sat, 19 Feb 2000 23:43:01 +0500 (MVT)
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Richard Dawe wrote:

> I wouldn't say the kernel's bulletproof either - it brought down my system
> several times when the Adaptec 2940AU drivers were in development. Debian
> 2.1 kernels always crashed my box (fortunately I had an old one compiled
> on RedHat lying around). I managed to totally crash my box several times
> when my CD-ROM drive was playing up, just by issuing:
> 
> mount /cdrom
> 
> as a non-root user.

Any kernel version that is odd (such as 2.1.x, 2.3.x, etc.) are all
unstable. I think you should have been aware of that. That's exactly why
RedHat ships only even versions of the kernels.

> Not to mention the FAT filesystem support in early 2.2.x kernel releases -
> I got several trashed filesystems followed by bad crash! All I did was
> edit a file as a non-root user!

Agreed, but it doesn't crash on all systems. That's the difference.

> I don't expect Linux not to crash. It just seems to crash less than
> Windows, and, as time passes, it crashes less and less. It's becoming more
> bulletproof.

Yes, agreed.

> You can crash your system easily as a non-root user too. It's just a lot
> harder.

Please cite an example. If this can crash every system, that's certainly a
bug and should be reported to the kernel developers (Mail in private).

But this is getting off-topic. I think we should stop this thread.

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