Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756242AbZGBWpA (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 18:45:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754020AbZGBWow (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 18:44:52 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:55722 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751743AbZGBWow (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 18:44:52 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 00:44:46 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: tridge@samba.org Cc: Rusty Russell , OGAWA Hirofumi , john.lanza@linux.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Kleikamp , Steve French , Mingming Cao , Paul McKenney Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES option Message-ID: <20090702224446.GD30840@elf.ucw.cz> References: <19013.8005.541836.436991@samba.org> <20090630063102.GB1351@ucw.cz> <200907012019.53932.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <20090702214646.GD1485@ucw.cz> <19021.12158.915384.574218@samba.org> <20090702223349.GA30840@elf.ucw.cz> <19021.14217.587592.808935@samba.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <19021.14217.587592.808935@samba.org> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1427 Lines: 34 On Fri 2009-07-03 08:41:13, tridge@samba.org wrote: > 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. That's why we have ethernet checksums. > Once the probabilties become small enough then it is normal to accept > imperfection in operating systems. If I could make it perfect I > but I haven't thought of a way to do that while being absolutely sure > of maintaining the full strength of the legal defence. It already _was_ perfect before you started patching it. > 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. So, you know that particular option will cause someone's XP to bluescreen, and you still want it to default to "Y"? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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/