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From: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 09:29:58AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> However, I'm quite nervous about this -- this patch has *plenty* of real
> possibility of wrecking data.
> 

Yes, it does.

Keep in mind though that now I'm just prototyping different solutions to
a problem I'm facing. I fully understand that in no way this patch is
going to be merged in its current state.

I'll send another email summarizing the criticism and proposing different
paths in a moment.

thanks,

-- 
Darwish
http://darwish.07.googlepages.com