Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 19:46:45 -0800 (PST) From: "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>, "K.J.Koster" <kjk1@ukc.ac.uk>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A simple way to crash your system. Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.94.961125194537.6312J-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com> In-Reply-To: <8867.848975625@time.cdrom.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
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