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Re:Linus Torvalds: “Do No Harm” by __david__ on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @03:49PM (#15760491)
That's fine in theory, but it didn't stop my disk from being corrupted. If the computer hadn't panicked, my data would still be available.
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Re:Linus Torvalds: “Do No Harm” by TickleSteve on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @07:01PM (#15761757)
its not theory... your system wasn't designed to be fault-tolerant in that manner.

Systems that matter, are.

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Re:Linus Torvalds: “Do No Harm” by __david__ on Thursday November 23, 2017 @03:32AM (#15763719)
The linux kernel needs to work with both tolerant and non-tolerant systems. Saying it needs to work a specific way that completely breaks real world things is completely naive, and exactly what Linus was railing against.
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