Quotes of the week

[Posted January 26, 2011 by corbet]

We care about everything. If the objective was to make life easier for ourselves, we'd all be on the golf course.

No way in hell do I want the situation of "the system is screwed, so let's overwrite the disk" to be something the kernel I release might do. It's crazy.

-- Linus Torvalds

Nice to see it gone - it seemed such a good idea in Linux 1.3

-- Alan Cox won't miss the BKL

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Posted Jan 27, 2011 12:36 UTC (Thu) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]

I agree with Linus. A long time ago we had a HPUX server with 128MB of RAM (i.e. quite a lot for the time). When it crashed, the system dumped the RAM to the root partition which did not have that much free space, which caused a filesystem corruption. I had some fun playing with fsck to fix it.

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Posted Jan 28, 2011 10:30 UTC (Fri) by ssam (guest, #46587) [Link] (1 responses)

in that lkml thread there is an interesting post about putting the oops in a 2d barcode that can be scanned by a phone.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/48554

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Posted Jan 28, 2011 16:59 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

Now THAT is a great idea. Scanning barcodes into a phone is reliable and dead easy.

Hope it happens.