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From: doug@qnx.com (Doug Santry)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux UFS support and FreeBSD
Date: 20 Dec 1996 15:04:35 -0500
Organization: QNX Software Systems
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In article <59f7q6$f7a@nesti.newengland.net>,
Paul Fox <pgf@american.com> wrote:
>Roger Espel Llima (espel@bireme.ens.fr) wrote:
>: Dec 19 04:52:41 nostromo kernel: ufs_read_super: fs_nindir 2048 != 3
>: Dec 19 04:52:41 nostromo kernel: ufs_read_super: fucking Sun blows me
>: Dec 19 04:52:41 nostromo kernel: ufs_read_super: fs last mounted on "/mnt/usr"
>: Dec 19 04:52:41 nostromo kernel: ufs_read_super: fs needs fsck
>: Dec 19 04:52:41 nostromo kernel: ufs_read_inode: file too big ino 2 dev 3/7, faking size
>: Dec 19 04:52:41 nostromo kernel: ufs_read_super: inopb 64
>
>i have _no_ clue about the poster's problem, but i will
>say that there is _no_ place for obscenity in production
>quality software, whether in comments or in user visible output.  it

Hello, it is *free* software!

>certainly doesn't reflect well on the programmer, nor on the linux
>community as a whole.

You are going to judge the Linux community as a whole because of one message
you saw of about kernel output.  Well, you're a reasonable guy aren't ya!

>would someone please change the offending message?

Somebody wrote it for free, hence they can make it say whatever they want.
Write your own if you don't like it.

DJS