Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932214AbVIRVnd (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Sep 2005 17:43:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932215AbVIRVnd (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Sep 2005 17:43:33 -0400 Received: from sccimhc91.asp.att.net ([63.240.76.165]:39568 "EHLO sccimhc91.asp.att.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932214AbVIRVnc (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Sep 2005 17:43:32 -0400 Message-ID: <432DDF7A.3050704@teleformix.com> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:43:22 -0500 From: Dan Oglesby User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Masover CC: Horst von Brand , thenewme91@gmail.com, Christoph Hellwig , Denis Vlasenko , chriswhite@gentoo.org, Hans Reiser , LKML , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel References: <200509182004.j8IK4JNx012764@inti.inf.utfsm.cl> <432DCE2A.5070705@slaphack.com> In-Reply-To: <432DCE2A.5070705@slaphack.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1310 Lines: 32 David Masover wrote: > Horst von Brand wrote: > >> There are lots of reports of ReiserFS 3 >> filesystems completely destroyed by minor hardware flakiness. > > > Honestly, this is one of the things I like about Linux. If I have > memory errors, Windows will just keep running, occasionally something > will crash, you restart it, never suspecting just how corrupt things > are getting under the hood. On Linux, I generally get kernel panics > pretty quickly, so I run memtest86 and replace the RAM. > > If my hardware is flaky, I consider it my job to replace it, not the > job of all my software to magically compensate for it. If I lose > data, oh well, I have backups. If I didn't, I was asking for trouble > anyway. I'm of the same opinion. If I have hardware that has a problem, and causes downtime, it gets replaced or repaired. I don't switch to a different piece of software to compensate for broken hardware. With that said, I have seen ReiserFS expose hardware that had problems. Hardware was repaired, and ReiserFS rides again. --Dan - 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/