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To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] tracing: add event trace infrastructure
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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:08:54 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20090225135437.GG7064@mit.edu> (Theodore Tso's message of "Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:54:37 -0500")
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Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> writes:

> [...]  I think it's because we've just been burned so many times
> with complex user space tools that are built in C++, have
> impossible-to-understand error handling ("try again with -vvvvvvv"),
> is hard to build because they have huge dependencies on external
> libraries, or is filled with distro dependencies and might not build
> on various distributions, or is dependent on the RPM macros, etc.
> [...]

How many of these concerns have a basis in recent reality / experience?

- FChE