Re: ReiserFS buglet

Oleg Drokin (green@namesys.com)
Tue, 24 Sep 2002 15:35:40 +0400


Hello!

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 03:30:10PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:

> >>It's a question of which errors one wishes to handle, and which you
> >>simply choose to ignore.
> >Yes, that's true. Reiserfs chose to not handle any HW errors, this is even
> >written somewhere in our FAQ.
> No, this is not true. We handle IO errors. We do not attempt to handle

Ok, IO errors is not kind of HW errors I meant.
I meant broken HW that does not behave like it should behave according
to specs (i.e. writing other data than we asked it, damaging memory
content and stuff).

> every imaginable hardware error because no one can. If your CPU
> overheats, our code makes no effort to compensate for it.

Bye,
Oleg
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