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On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:51:44AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> 120314 Greg KH wrote: |
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> > if you have /usr on a different filesystem today, with no initrd, |
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> > your machine could be broken and you don't even know it. |
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> Whatever do you mean ? -- if it were truly broken, |
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> it wouldn't perform in some important & obvious respect. |
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Not always, no, it isn't obvious that something didn't start up |
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correctly, or that it didn't fully load properly. Some programs later |
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on recover and handle things better. |
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> Do you mean "insecure" ? -- if so, what is the threat ? |
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No threat. |
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> > greg "why is this thread still alive" k-h |
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> Your dismissive response is perhaps one reason ... |
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Given that this is the first time I've responded to this thread in |
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weeks, I doubt it. People like to complain, that's nothing new, I |
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should be used to it by now, so perhaps it is all my fault... |
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greg k-h |
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