linux-kernel - Re: [FYI] tux3: Core changes

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Date:	Fri, 31 Jul 2015 15:12:20 -0700
From:	Daniel Phillips <daniel@...nq.net>
To:	David Lang <david@...g.hm>
Cc:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	<tux3@...3.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [FYI] tux3: Core changes

On Friday, July 31, 2015 11:29:51 AM PDT, David Lang wrote:
> We, the Linux Community have less tolerance for losing people's data and preventing them from operating than we used to when it was all tinkerer's personal data and secondary systems.
> 
> So rather than pushing optimizations out to everyone and seeing what breaks, we now do more testing and checking for failures before pushing things out.

By the way, I am curious about whose data you think will get lost
as a result of pushing out Tux3 with a possible theoretical bug
in a wildly improbable scenario that has not actually been
described with sufficient specificity to falsify, let alone
demonstrated.

Regards,

Daniel
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