Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 07:30:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 07:30:28 -0400 Received: from angband.namesys.com ([212.16.7.85]:59787 "HELO angband.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 07:30:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 15:35:40 +0400 From: Oleg Drokin To: Hans Reiser Cc: Jakob Oestergaard , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ReiserFS buglet Message-ID: <20020924153540.A25934@namesys.com> References: <20020924072455.GE2442@unthought.net> <20020924132110.A22362@namesys.com> <20020924092720.GF2442@unthought.net> <20020924134816.A23185@namesys.com> <20020924100338.GH2442@unthought.net> <20020924142521.C23185@namesys.com> <3D904CC2.4080607@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D904CC2.4080607@namesys.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 954 Lines: 25 Hello! On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 03:30:10PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote: > >>It's a question of which errors one wishes to handle, and which you > >>simply choose to ignore. > >Yes, that's true. Reiserfs chose to not handle any HW errors, this is even > >written somewhere in our FAQ. > No, this is not true. We handle IO errors. We do not attempt to handle Ok, IO errors is not kind of HW errors I meant. I meant broken HW that does not behave like it should behave according to specs (i.e. writing other data than we asked it, damaging memory content and stuff). > every imaginable hardware error because no one can. If your CPU > overheats, our code makes no effort to compensate for it. Bye, Oleg - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/