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Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:39:02 +0200 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@....de> Cc: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@....de>, Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>, kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, mtk.manpages@...il.com, tytso@....edu, rdunlap@...otime.net, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] ext2/3: document conditions when reliable operation is possible Hi! > > +Linux block-backed filesystems can only work correctly when several > > +conditions are met in the block layer and below (disks, flash > > +cards). Some of them are obvious ("data on media should not change > > +randomly"), some are less so. > > You should make clear that the file lists per-file-system rules and > that some file sytems can recover from some of the error conditions. Ok, I added "Not all filesystems require all of these to be satisfied for safe operation" sentence there. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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