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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: DEVFS/SLICE passes milestone
To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte)
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 22:57:32 +0000 (GMT)
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In-Reply-To: <199711271821.TAA01333@yedi.iaf.nl> from "Wilko Bulte" at Nov 27, 97 07:21:43 pm
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> > > I know :), I just wanted to get this straight, we don't want a new
> > > "inherrently broken by design" subsystem again.
> > 
> > Inre this comment and the previous comment about my large patches
> > to the filesystem: my union mounts work, do yours?
> 
> Oh OH! Are you people preparing to start a major flamefest again?

No.  I was simply addressing the backhanded putdown of code that
works in the context of ``we don't want a new "inherrently broken
by design" subsystem again''.

The current VFS code meets that criteria.  I can phrase it another
way, if you want:

You don't want a new one... but you want to keep the old ones?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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