Question about Cyrus, ext3, and Linux kernel 2.4.18 bug

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, James Ralston wrote:
> > I can't think of any sane reason why ext3 authors would want to
> > weaken the semantics they export to applications now.
> 
> Don't count on it.  There's a fair amount of precedence in Linux that
> previous behavior will be cheerfully tossed out the window if it

Not when it is something like this. You'd get at least a mount option to get
the old behaviour back really fast, to avoid the fatal meltdown of
vger.k.o...

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  Henrique Holschuh