Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:10:53 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>,
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       Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>,
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       Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
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       David Rees <drees76@gmail.com>, Jesper Krogh <jesper@krogh.cc>,
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29
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> percentage. For many setups, the other corruption issues (drive failure) 
> are not just more common, but generally more disastrous anyway. So why 
> would a person like that worry about the (rare) power failure?

How about the far more regular crash case ? We may be pretty reliable but
we are hardly indestructible especially on random boxes with funky BIOSes
or low grade hardware builds.

For the generic sane low end server/high end desktop build with at least
two drive software RAID the hardware failure for data loss case is
pretty rare. Crashes yes, having to reboot to recover from a RAID failure
sure but data loss far less so
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