From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tridge@samba.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES option Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 08:41:13 +1000 Message-ID: <19021.14217.587592.808935@samba.org> References: <19013.8005.541836.436991@samba.org> <20090630063102.GB1351@ucw.cz> <200907012019.53932.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <20090702214646.GD1485@ucw.cz> <19021.12158.915384.574218@samba.org> <20090702223349.GA30840@elf.ucw.cz> Reply-To: tridge@samba.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Rusty Russell , OGAWA Hirofumi , john.lanza@linux.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Kleikamp , Steve French , Mingming Cao , Paul McKenney To: Pavel Machek Return-path: Received: from mail.samba.org ([66.70.73.150]:41702 "EHLO lists.samba.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752534AbZGBWlX (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 18:41:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090702223349.GA30840@elf.ucw.cz> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Pavel, > So you know it causes XP to bluescreen, but can not reproduce that. So > what? Someone, somewhere _will_ reproduce it. yes, like someone, somewhere will get data corruption in a TCP connection because the checksum is quite weak and networking hardware ain't perfect. Once the probabilties become small enough then it is normal to accept imperfection in operating systems. If I could make it perfect I would, but I haven't thought of a way to do that while being absolutely sure of maintaining the full strength of the legal defence. If you find a way to actually produce this problem in a way that is realistic for Linux users then let me know. Otherwise I think it is the best option we have, imperfect though it is. Cheers, Tridge