linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet

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Message-ID: <47D8BE08.6040800@davidnewall.com>
Date:	Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:09:20 +1030
From:	David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>
To:	Daniel Phillips <phillips@...nq.net>
CC:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet

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.
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