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> Rik van Riel wrote:
> comment on this. Millions of users (according to what SuSE tells me our level of usage is in
> Europe) are not wandering around saying, damn, I keep making reiserfs freeze. Do you use reiserfs?


Wrong criteria:

The real test is

Can XYZ evil bastard with the source code construct a non setuid application
that causes the absolute worst case behaviour and deadlocks or crashes the
machine.

As I understand it now the answer to that is yes - for reiser, xfs and ext3
(in fact more so for ext3 than the others)

Its a bad idea to ship code with a hard to fix problem that may pop up on
bugtraq a month later..

Alan


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