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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 02:36:39 +0400
From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption
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Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> 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
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> Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release:
>    "we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)"
> 
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If you could halve linux memory manager performance and check as many things as
reiserfs checks, would you do it.  I think not, or else you would have.  You
made the right choice.  Now, if you add a #define, you can check as many things
as ReiserFS checks, and still go just as fast....

Hans
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