<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 7:34 AM Simba via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Support for the system does not have to be provided by the maintainers<br>
of the software. Support could come from any trustworthy American<br>
technology firm.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This is clearly not true. I remember one particular instance where Linux virtual machines were remounting their file systems read only under heavy IO load in vsphere. VMware gave us a patch for the SCSI driver before it was available upstream. Only a company that employs some good kernel programmers would be able to do that.</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote></div></div></div>