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Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 08:41:13 +1000
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
       OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>, john.lanza@linux.com,
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       Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>, Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>,
       Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES option
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Reply-To: tridge@samba.org
From: tridge@samba.org
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Hi Pavel,

 > So you know it causes XP to bluescreen, but can not reproduce that. So
 > what? Someone, somewhere _will_ reproduce it.

yes, like someone, somewhere will get data corruption in a TCP
connection because the checksum is quite weak and networking hardware
ain't perfect. 

Once the probabilties become small enough then it is normal to accept
imperfection in operating systems. If I could make it perfect I would,
but I haven't thought of a way to do that while being absolutely sure
of maintaining the full strength of the legal defence.

If you find a way to actually produce this problem in a way that is
realistic for Linux users then let me know. Otherwise I think it is
the best option we have, imperfect though it is. 

Cheers, Tridge
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