kern/67919: Why nobody take serious to fix this bug?

[Maxim Konovalov]

The following reply was made to PR kern/67919; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Maxim Konovalov <maxim at macomnet.ru>
To: Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru>
Cc: "Cai, Quanqing" <caiquanqing at gmail.com>, freebsd-current at freebsd.org,
        bug-followup at freebsd.org, Edwin Groothuis <edwin at mavetju.org>,
        Uwe Doering <gemini at geminix.org>
Subject: Re: kern/67919: Why nobody take serious to fix this bug?
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:18:18 +0300 (MSK)

 [...]
 > > I was told the patch is incorrect.  It works in certain cases but
 > > incorrect in general.
 >
 > Why is it incorrect ? I'm using it for year.
 
 Because you can't just throw away any chunk of data (e.g. it could be
 a meta-data) without a risk to damage a filesystem.
 
 -- 
 Maxim Konovalov