Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:22:11 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet |
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On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:14:16 -0800 Daniel Phillips <phillips@phunq.net> wrote:
> 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.
He knows. Ext3 cannot recover well from massive loss of intermediate writes. It isn't a normal failure mode and there isn't sufficient fs metadata robustness for this. A log structured backing store would deal with that but all you apparently want to do is scream FUD at anyone who doesn't agree with you.
Alan
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