Re: ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption

[Hans Reiser]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 12:30:12AM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:
> > But there is not one where they recover from invalid arguments without a panic
> > (unless I failed to notice something),
> 
> Right.
> 
> > so it gets you nothing except a message
> > that we the developers will find more informative when trying to find what made
> > it crash.
> 
> 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.

> 
>         Christoph
> 
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Are you going to leave it on for future versions of ReiserFS, or just for Linux
2.4.2? 

Hans