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Subject: Re: [OT] Major Clock Drift
To: pavel@suse.cz (Pavel Machek)
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:36:51 +0000 (GMT)
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> > 			queued_writes=1;
> > 			return;
> > 		}
> > 	}
> 
> Unfortunately, that means that if machine crashes in interrupt, it may
> "loose" printk message. That is considered bad (tm).

The alternative is that the machine clock slides continually and the machine
is unusable. This is considered even worse by most people
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