Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751952AbYCMFjZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:39:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751139AbYCMFjQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:39:16 -0400 Received: from eth7959.sa.adsl.internode.on.net ([150.101.82.22]:59746 "EHLO hawking.rebel.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751025AbYCMFjP (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:39:15 -0400 Message-ID: <47D8BE08.6040800@davidnewall.com> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:09:20 +1030 From: David Newall User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Phillips CC: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet References: <200803092346.17556.phillips@phunq.net> <200803102050.40567.phillips@phunq.net> <20080312131133.60e99d29@the-village.bc.nu> <200803121029.54108.phillips@phunq.net> In-Reply-To: <200803121029.54108.phillips@phunq.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 576 Lines: 15 Daniel Phillips wrote: > Particularly about Ext2/Ext3, which does recover well from random damage. > My experience. By "recover well", you must mean "loses massive swabs of data, leaving the system unbootable and with enormous numbers of user files missing." My experience. Expecting fsck to cover for missed writes is stupid. -- 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/