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A comment on Dropbox Brings Back Support for ZFS, XFS, Btrfs and eCryptFS on Linux. Parent comment

Re:Dropbox Brings Back Support for ZFS, XFS, Btrfs and eCryp... by berkut on Monday July 22, 2019 @04:35PM (#20502076)
It's quite possibly a silent bug on the other platforms as well (i.e. relying on undefined or compiler-defined behaviour that just happens to work currently).

A new compiler / OS update / graphics card driver in the future might trip the bug on the platforms it seems to be working fine on currently.

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Re:Dropbox Brings Back Support for ZFS, XFS, Btrfs and eCryp... by davesmith1983 on Monday July 22, 2019 @08:03PM (#20503369)
Lets pretend a few things, because I don't think you understand what I am getting at. I have application called "Music Box", I am release version 2.0.0 and it is QA'd before release against Pear OS 7.0.

If Pear OS 8.0 is release a month later and breaks my application because of an API change their end. I would just release 2.0.1 of Music Box that fixes the defects. If I was proactive get hold of a beta or release candidate of Pear OS 8.0 and QA my application on there to see if there was any obvious defects.

The same with a newer compiler or a newer hardware driver. I would just get hold of the beta / release candidate and fix it then. The one thing I wouldn't do is try compiling it on a completely different OS that none of my users use.

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