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SubjectRe: starting with 2.7
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.

Ian
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