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On 3/6/19 3:37 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> 
> I just don't get the opposition to Joel's work. The rest of the thread
> already goes into detail about the problems with pure-filesystem
> solutions, and you and others are just totally ignoring those
> well-thought-out rationales for the module approach and doing
> inflooping on "lol just use a tarball". That's not productive.
> 

You might think they are well thought out, but at least from what I can
tell they seem completely spurious.

	-hpa