Comment 201 for bug 330824

2009/6/20 Brian Shannon <email address hidden>

> """Ubuntu folks, when am I going to be able to tell my mom it's a good
> idea to ditch the Windows and go Ubuntu?"""
>
> To be blunt, when you decide to use the stable defaults Ubuntu provides.
>
> Sorry about being off topic but this was just so ridiculous I had to
> pass comment.
>
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> Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824
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If everybody is using stable defaults then who will test or develop new
software?
Every software community must have early testers and if they report
something it would be in the best interests of community to fix reported bug
and if early testers are ignored, they will just stop testing which
eventually will be very bad for Ubuntu.

No progress is being made on this bug for quite some time and it is likely
to remain so. If nobody knows which patch introduces this bug just apply all
diffs between 2.6.28 and 2.6.29 in fs/[ext4,jbd2] to Jaunty kernel. This is
a huge change, but it unlikely to introduce bugs that are even half as bad
as this one.