Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Jan 2005 11:52:07 +0800 (WST) | From | Ian Kent <> | Subject | Re: starting with 2.7 |
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On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Rik van Riel wrote:
Oh so true.
> On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Andries Brouwer wrote: > > > You change some stuff. The bad mistakes are discovered very soon. > > Some subtler things or some things that occur only in special > > configurations or under special conditions or just with > > very low probability may not be noticed until much later. > > Some of these subtle bugs are only discovered a year
Or longer and it doesn't need to be a large system.
> after the distribution with some particular kernel has > been deployed - at which point the kernel has moved on > so far that the fix the distro does might no longer > apply (even in concept) to the upstream kernel... > > This is especially true when you are talking about really > big database servers and bugs that take weeks or months > to trigger.
And it doesn't have to be large and complex just infrequently hit code path.
This happens much more frequently than anyone wants but that's the the way it is.
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