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From: Hugo Santos <hsantos@av.it.pt>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 13:00:03 +0100

>  Resiliency to failure is not something that depends on the
>  kernel. If the code in question is in the kernel, and it crashes,
>  how will you recover?

Developer momentum means that the kernel is likely to get fixed
whereas the userland component will more likely rot and not get
fixed.

So in this sense resiliency does depend upon something being in
the kernel or not.