Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753126AbYCMGOk (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:14:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751480AbYCMGOd (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:14:33 -0400 Received: from phunq.net ([64.81.85.152]:48704 "EHLO moonbase.phunq.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751477AbYCMGOc (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:14:32 -0400 From: Daniel Phillips To: David Newall Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:14:16 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200803092346.17556.phillips@phunq.net> <200803121029.54108.phillips@phunq.net> <47D8BE08.6040800@davidnewall.com> In-Reply-To: <47D8BE08.6040800@davidnewall.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803122314.18244.phillips@phunq.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 773 Lines: 20 On Wednesday 12 March 2008 22:39, David Newall wrote: > 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. Whatever it can get off the disk it gets. It does a good job. If you don't think so, then don't tell me, tell Ted. Daniel -- 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/