Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 2 Sep 2002 14:39:30 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: PATCH - change to blkdev->queue calling triggers BUG in md.c |
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On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > > Compare it with mounting.
NO.
The point about backwards compatibility is that things WORK.
There's no point in comparing things to how you _want_ them to work. The only thing that matters for bckwards compatibility is how they work _today_.
And your suggestion would break every single installation out there. Not "maybe a few". Every single one.
(yeah, you could find some NFS-only setup that doesn't break. Big deal).
And backwards compatibility is extremely important.
Linus
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