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So you’re saying that having a data loss condition 17 years ago which only affected a subset of users who lost their storage connection in the middle of a move
by acdha 2y ago
So you’re saying that having a data loss condition 17 years ago which only affected a subset of users who lost their storage connection in the middle of a move operation tells us something about their products today? Does that also mean that I shouldn’t use Linux because ReiserFS lost data on local storage in some cases back then, or btrfs did so more recently?
What policy are you saying we should use to evaluate software? In particular, what’s left if we’re saying it’s no longer good enough to have learned from mistakes? I supported a lab full of computational scientists who heavily used their Macs with external storage at that time and this caused no problems for anyone, so I also am looking for something more quantitative like whether a bug which only affected handful of users disqualifies usage for everyone.