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Subject: Re: Stress testing the UFS2 filesystem
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Kris Kennaway schrieb:
> On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:32:29AM +0400, Pavel Merdine wrote:
>>Of course I think we could do patches to overcome corrupting panics,
>>but the core FreeBSD team would not accept this, as they are happy
>>with panics and corruptions they make to other filesystems.
> 
> Of course not, don't make silly accusations :-)
> 
> The problem is much more difficult to solve than "making the panic an
> error return".

I'm interested in more information about this issue. Do you have a 
reference to an old discussion about this topic or do you like to 
explain it a little bit further for me (and probably others)?

Thanks in advance
Björn :-)