Comment 85 for bug 317781

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Theodore Ts'o <email address hidden> wrote:
> The fact that so many people are complaining is what
> makes me deeply suspicious that there may be some faulty applications
> out there which are constantly rewriting existing applications reguarly
> enough that people are seeing this --- either that, or the crappy
> proprietary drivers are much more crash-prone than I thought, and people
> are used to Linux machines crashing all the time

@Theodore: Keep in mind the context of many of these reports, at least
here: an alpha OS (Jaunty) and not well tested, newly pulled in
versions of proprietary drivers. I wouldn't say linux users are used
to crashed all the time, but on an alpha with new proprietary drivers,
kernel panics aren't THAT rare until worked out. New upstream
application versions could also be doing silly things, they haven't
been thoroughly tested yet, that's the point of testing them :) Just
thought this reminder might help, it could be easy to not think about
if you are using EXT4 in a more stable environment. Having said that,
Alpha 5 has been awesome for me and I am now using it full time with
EXT4.