From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] ext2/3: document conditions when reliable operation is
 possible
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:50:56 -0400
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Cc: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>,
	Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>,
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To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Pavel Machek wrote:

> If you want to argue that ext3/MD RAID5/no UPS combination is still
> less likely to fail than single SATA disk given part fail
> probabilities, go ahead and present nice statistics. Its just that I'm
> not interested in them.

The reality in your document does not match up with the reality
out there in the world.  That sounds like a good reason not to
have your (incorrect) document out there, confusing people.

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