Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:05:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:05:37 -0400 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.0.238]:38149 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:05:17 -0400 Message-ID: <3B65CC07.24E3EF4C@namesys.com> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 01:05:11 +0400 From: Hans Reiser Organization: Namesys X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vitaly Fertman Subject: Re: ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption In-Reply-To: <200107281645.f6SGjA620666@ns.caldera.de> <3B653211.FD28320@namesys.com> <20010730210644.A5488@caldera.de> <3B65C3D4.FF8EB12D@namesys.com> <20010730224930.A18311@caldera.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > 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. There is nothing like a distro maintainer overriding the design decisions made by the lead architect of a package, not believing that said architect knows what the fuck he is doing. We will make this unusable by you from this point onwards. Vitaly, I told you what to do weeks ago in this regard, do it today. Does it get worse than shovelware? I suppose it does.... Hans - 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/