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[jschellevis]

The timing is impeccable; if I didn't know any better it would look like they did not want 15.7 to have the fix. A day earlier and we would have picked it up gladly.

Can't agree more..it is a pitty that the whole a idea seemed to be to wait until 15.7 was released.

However nobody needs to worry as 15.7 the "Brave Badger" contains a well tested solution/fix no need to "sync" your disks.

And as they say, the badger is a brave creature quoting someone who posted a youtube video:

"stung a thousant times and he doesn't give a #"

Let them keep stinging, we'll keep fixing and take to project into this millennium!

[chol]

To be fair, here is what pfSense has to say. https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1815

The timing is impeccable; if I didn't know any better it would look like they did not want 15.7 to have the fix. A day earlier and we would have picked it up gladly.

2.2 .. 2.2.1 .. 2.2.2  they seem to try to get close to our (weekly) bug fix cycle     

Features and status of FreeBSD's Ext2 implementation - BSDCan 2014

Ad and me are happy about this in a way you can't imagine.

O.k. I admit it , I am not really sure, if I got the funny part here, but I do not take the following statement to seriously, that's for sure:
"Some free advice: If you don’t understand the system, don’t attempt to disguise your lack of knowledge with infantile rambling, and anyone who thinks ext2 is an appropriate primary filesystem for FreeBSD has questionable motives and poor taste." (pfSense Digest - filesystem corruption: closed, by Jim Thompson July 2, 2015) -- Actually this statement got me tears in my eyes .. from laughing !

The timing is impeccable; if I didn't know any better it would look like they did not want 15.7 to have the fix. A day earlier and we would have picked it up gladly.

Can't agree more..it is a pitty that the whole a idea seemed to be to wait until 15.7 was released.

Its so absurd, this realy doesn't need more words... 

[franco]

O.k. I admit it , I am not really sure, if I got the funny part here

That's natural. It refers to a conversation that Ad and I had on Wednesday, discussing the file corruption and how it affects *all* files that are not synced to the disk in time. This is especially bad on power outages that have more than one power cut: if the system was just rebooting after the outage and brought down again there are a lot of files that will have the same issue, not just /etc/passwd and friends. We were joking about using ext2 instead to fix the issue, knowing this will never be a sensible fix for (any) BSD. And then you drop the link in the forum. And then Jim picks it up to teach us a lesson. And now we're here.

[chol]

 Lol - yes exactly, I put it in because of the little spicy element that comes with it, in an ironic undertone : and Jim made my day!