Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Jun 1997 15:02:31 -0500 | From | Miguel de Icaza <> | Subject | Re: Ext-2fs volume support (patch) |
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> > WARNING: Please keep in mind that this is a very experimental > > patch. This patch may crash your information. Be extremely > > careful. Do not use it for your work machine. Test this code only > > on a developement machine or in a scratch disk. > > Hint: Create a bunch of files (say four 8MB ones) with "dd"", and use > the loop device to make them look like block devices. Format them, > and play with them :-) I don't recommend you put them on a fs you > are afraid to use (just being paranoid).
The problem is that this code is what you will be using for your regular file system access, so, if I introduced a bug in the generic code, well, uhm, ahem, you will suffer the problems of this as well:-)
Miguel.
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