Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 18:05:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 18:04:59 -0400 Received: from perninha.conectiva.com.br ([200.250.58.156]:52487 "HELO perninha.conectiva.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 18:04:49 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 19:04:54 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: To: Hans Reiser Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Subject: Re: ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption In-Reply-To: <3B65CFC5.A6B4FC08@namesys.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Hans Reiser wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > 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). > > The cost is not a crash, the cost is performance sucks. If you can chose between sucky performance or a chance at silent data corruption ... which would you chose ? Rik -- Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release: "we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)" http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ - 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/