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Ext4 data corruption trouble

Ext4 data corruption trouble

Posted Oct 24, 2012 19:27 UTC (Wed) by spender (subscriber, #23067)
Parent article: Ext4 data corruption trouble [Updated]

Personally, I'm tired of the "masturbating monkeys" like nix telling me that a bug in Linux causes data corruption. It seems like whenever there's one of these data corruption bugs present, someone's spouting off at the mouth about it! When will people like him learn that these kinds of articles are offensive and unnecessary, as (Linus wisely tells us) all bugs are of equal importance? Let's not glorify these data corruption bugs, and may our systems be destroyed as they so richly deserve.

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-Brad


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Ext4 data corruption trouble

Posted Oct 24, 2012 20:14 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Sorry, I didn't realise Ted Ts'o and Linus Torvalds were the same person, or obliged to respond in the same way to all requests. (I also didn't think Linus had much to do with stable kernel management. But perhaps Greg KH is the same person as well.)

Ext4 data corruption trouble

Posted Oct 25, 2012 0:31 UTC (Thu) by dirtyepic (subscriber, #30178) [Link]

It's Torvalds all the way down.

Ext4 data corruption trouble

Posted Oct 25, 2012 4:51 UTC (Thu) by cyanit (guest, #86671) [Link]

They are just different manifestations of the overmind.

Chastity for monkeys

Posted Oct 25, 2012 9:43 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

I don't agree. In fact all patches to ext4 should carry a warning "Danger! May eat your data alive!" lest someone be misled by the kernel's "integrity through obscurity" evil policy.

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