On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 09:29:58AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

However, I'm quite nervous about this -- this patch has *plenty* of real
possibility of wrecking data.

Yes, it does.

Keep in mind though that now I'm just prototyping different solutions to
a problem I'm facing. I fully understand that in no way this patch is
going to be merged in its current state.

I'll send another email summarizing the criticism and proposing different
paths in a moment.

thanks,

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Darwish
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