On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:42:22AM -0800, Jon Callas wrote: > Moreover, disk systems are hard to write and when you have a nasty bug, you lose people's data. People don't like having their data lost. Simplicity is a virtue in all security systems, as well as in others.
I couldn't resist mentioning this cute little crypto-storage story of mine: http://www.subspacefield.org/security/hard_drives_of_doom/ Also, that's one reason I find picking file systems hard; it took me a long time to find out that XFS, although fast, tended to hang the Linux kernel during a shutdown on some timestamp routine, requiring a hard power-cycle. That's something you just don't often know, whereas benchmarks are easy to obtain, but not being able to shut down unattended is far more serious to me than merely being slow. -- Effing the ineffable since 1997. | http://www.subspacefield.org/~travis/ My emails do not usually have attachments; it's a digital signature that your mail program doesn't understand. If you are a spammer, please email j...@subspacefield.org to get blacklisted.
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