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Message-ID: <20080313132211.6af855b3@the-village.bc.nu> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:22:11 +0000 From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@...nq.net> Cc: David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:14:16 -0800 Daniel Phillips <phillips@...nq.net> wrote: > On Wednesday 12 March 2008 22:39, David Newall wrote: > > Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > Particularly about Ext2/Ext3, which does recover well from random damage. > > > My experience. > > > > By "recover well", you must mean "loses massive swabs of data, leaving > > the system unbootable and with enormous numbers of user files missing." > > My experience. > > > > Expecting fsck to cover for missed writes is stupid. > > Whatever it can get off the disk it gets. It does a good job. If you > don't think so, then don't tell me, tell Ted. He knows. Ext3 cannot recover well from massive loss of intermediate writes. It isn't a normal failure mode and there isn't sufficient fs metadata robustness for this. A log structured backing store would deal with that but all you apparently want to do is scream FUD at anyone who doesn't agree with you. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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