On Wednesday March 11 2009, Larry Stotler wrote:
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Kai Ponte
wrote: Well... 11.0 corupts external HD formated as reiserfs, via USB. 11.1 crashed till the last kernel updated if you had a reiserfs and beagle was running.
I've heard reiserfs can kill more than just the file system...
The problem was BEAGLE, not resier.
(I think Kai was referring to Hans Reiser's murder conviction.) Anyway... Operating systems are strongly stratified, and for a reason. If the kernel panics whenever you run a particular application, it is _not_ that application's problem. If Beagle can trigger a crash, then the bug is, by definition, in the kernel or in a file system or a device driver. A system crash, even if it's triggered by horribly buggy application that abuses the system calls, is properly laid at the feet of some bit of privileged code. (There are grey areas, such as fork bombs and memory hogs that can produce hard-to-detect and -contain symptoms, but that should still be considered a challenge to kernel and systems engineers to produce more robust operating systems.)
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