Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 16:49:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 16:49:48 -0400 Received: from ns.caldera.de ([212.34.180.1]:55725 "EHLO ns.caldera.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 16:49:34 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 22:49:31 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Hans Reiser Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption Message-ID: <20010730224930.A18311@caldera.de> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Hans Reiser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200107281645.f6SGjA620666@ns.caldera.de> <3B653211.FD28320@namesys.com> <20010730210644.A5488@caldera.de> <3B65C3D4.FF8EB12D@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B65C3D4.FF8EB12D@namesys.com>; from reiser@namesys.com on Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 12:30:12AM +0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 12:30:12AM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote: > But there is not one where they recover from invalid arguments without a panic > (unless I failed to notice something), Right. > so it gets you nothing except a message > that we the developers will find more informative when trying to find what made > it crash. Nope. It does a reiserfs_panic instead of letting the wrong arguments slipping into lower layers and possibly on disk and thus corrupting data. And in my opinion correct data is much more worth than one crash more or less (especially with a journaling filesystem). Christoph -- Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX. - 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/