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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 01:05:11 +0400
From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 12:30:12AM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:
> > But there is not one where they recover from invalid arguments without a panic
> > (unless I failed to notice something),
> 
> Right.
> 
> > so it gets you nothing except a message
> > that we the developers will find more informative when trying to find what made
> > it crash.
> 
> Nope.  It does a reiserfs_panic instead of letting the wrong arguments
> slipping into lower layers and possibly on disk and thus corrupting data.
> 
> And in my opinion correct data is much more worth than one crash more or
> less (especially with a journaling filesystem).
> 
>         Christoph
> 
> --
> Whip me.  Beat me.  Make me maintain AIX.


There is nothing like a distro maintainer overriding the design decisions made
by the lead architect of a package, not believing that said architect knows what
the fuck he is doing.

We will make this unusable by you from this point onwards.  Vitaly, I told you
what to do weeks ago in this regard, do it today.

Does it get worse than shovelware?  I suppose it does....

Hans