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From: "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com>
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> [msdosfs]
>> It works as long as I treat it like fragile china, and not having it
>> would be a real setback for me.
>
>I understand this, but you also have to realize that many people don't
>understand the fragile china approach (and with justification - how
>*would* one generally know?) and it's a real setback to have your UFS
>filesystems blown away too. :-)
>
>I'd welcome some compromise solutions, otherwise I think it's simply
>too dangerous to advertise, explicitly or implicitly, as a feature.

Would it be sufficient to comment it out of GENERIC (or remove it entirely
and leave it in LINT), and maybe add a comment suggesting it's a bull
running through a china shop?

Brian