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Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:54:50 +0200
From: "Molle Bestefich" <molle.bestefich@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: ext3 corruption
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Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> The kernel people are certainly not infallible either. And there are cases
> where the right order is A B C, and others in which it is C B A, and still
> others where it doesn't matter.

In the quite unlikely situation where that happens, you've obviously
got a piece of software which is broken dependency-wise.  Many of the
current schemes will fail to accommodate that too.

For example, no amount of moving the /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K35smb script
around will fix that situation on Red Hat.

A solution to your example is to fix two of the three broken pieces of
software by splitting B into B1 and B2, and either A or C into their
components likewise:

A1 --> B1 --> C --> B2 --> A2

 -or-

C1 --> B1 --> A --> B2 --> C2

> No way to get it right always.

Your example did in no way prove that, so thus far that statement is not true.

> In any case, this is wildly off-topic for a list on /kernel/ development.
> Better locate a Linux User Group near you, look for mailing lists on running
> Linux, trawl Usenet for a group with acceptable signal/noise ratio.

I did mention that:

> > Anyway, let's all forget about the init scripts forthwith, they're
> > not really relevant for LKML I think.

And:

> > Concentrate on the ext3 issue :-).

And my next posting was about ext3 again.
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