* Alexander Holler <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Also note that BUG_ON() will make data corruption _worse_ statistically.
> > Why?
> > Because most data corruptions are unlikely to be perfectly detected by a
> > BUG_ON(), and the BUG_ON() delays the finding of the underlying bug, so the
> > bug will hit more people before it's fixed for good.
> >
> > So even in the cases where you could argue that the system needs to stop,
> > because we have evidence of data corruption, it's statistically the better
> > approach to continue and get kernel log info back to developers.
>
> Risking more, maybe even worse problems like corrupting file systems or
> similiar
> in order to have a slightly chance of save log info?
That's not what I said - please read my argument and argue with that if you
want,
not with some other straw-man argument...
Thanks,
Ingo
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