Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756792AbZC0PKP (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:10:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753407AbZC0PJ5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:09:57 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:44364 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753323AbZC0PJ5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:09:57 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:08:11 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Theodore Tso , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , David Rees , Jesper Krogh , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29 Message-ID: <20090327150811.09b313f5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090327145156.GB24819@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20090326171148.9bf8f1ec.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090326174704.cd36bf7b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090327032301.GN6239@mit.edu> <20090327034705.GA16888@srcf.ucam.org> <20090327051338.GP6239@mit.edu> <20090327055750.GA18065@srcf.ucam.org> <20090327062114.GA18290@srcf.ucam.org> <20090327112438.GQ6239@mit.edu> <20090327145156.GB24819@srcf.ucam.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1008 Lines: 21 > And if a behaviour is in ext3, then for the vast majority of practical > purposes it exists everywere. Users of non-Linux POSIX operating systems > are niche. Users of non-ext3 filesystems on Linux are niche. SuSE for years shipped reiserfs as a default. > When my grandmother was growing up she had to use an outside toilet. > Sometimes the past sucked and we're glad of progress being made. Not checking for errors is not "progress" its indiscipline aided by languages and tools that permit it to occur without issuing errors. It's why software "engineering" is at best approaching early 1950's real engineering practice ("hey gee we should test this stuff") and has yet to grow up and get anywhere into the world of real engineering and quality. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/