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We might care about the stack trace, so would be helpful to print it, maybe WARN + panic? > Question though is whether it's better to halt the > system right away, as opposed to e.g. permitting orderly shutdown to cover > the case where the corruption ends up not being "deadly". Hm, won't this be risky, as we could then possibly corrupt data on disk for example? Thanks, Roger.