Quotes of the week

Yeah, restricting information is always a double edged sword - and by locking down we are implicitly assuming that the number of people trying to do harm is larger than the number of people trying to help. It is probably true though - and the damage they can inflict is becoming more and more serious (financially, legally and socially - and, in some cases, physically) with every year of humanity moving their lives to the 'net.

Well yes. We take something which will fail occasionally and with your patch replace it with something which will fail a bit more often. Why don't we go all the way and do something which will fail *even more often*. Namely, just delete the damn function in the hope that the resulting failures will provoke the ext4 crew into doing something sane this time?