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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps
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On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> Why are half the people here trying to hide behind this diskspace
> is cheap argument?  If we rely on that, then Linux sucks shit.

Never mind them, I haven't seen any of them contribute
VM code, even ;)

OTOH, disk space _is_ cheap, so the other VM - performance
related - VM bugs do have a somewhat higher priority at the
moment.

regards,

Rik
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However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose...

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