Why people don't test development distributions

Posted Jul 9, 2009 10:46 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Why people don't test development distributions by PaulWay
Parent article: Why people don't test development distributions

My understanding is that snapshotting the root filesystem, especially under memory pressure, is still deadlock-prone: and after the deadlock has hit everything accessing the root fs blocks, which basically means a reboot.