Re: [Gnu-arch-users] On incompetent uses of English

[Derek Zhou]

Two weeks later and people are still talking about this. Don't we have
better ways to use our time? :) 

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:

>    False.  I said exactly what I meant.  It was partly false in fact
>    (as Andy Tai pointed out, no decision had been made, so the process
>    is not sufficiently flawed that it is "revolting").  However, I was
>    revolted, and Tom was being ignored by a frequent poster.  (The OP
>    still has not responded to Tom's criticisms.)  So my post was
I did, indirectly. I said inode sigs are very weak in terms of security,
and the "forensic trace" argument is close to being moot. Having said
that, inode sigs are good ways to detect _unintentional_ corruption;
and in this case rm -rf (if made atomic) is the reasonable thing to do.     

Derek