Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:43:22 -0500 | From | Dan Oglesby <> | Subject | Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel |
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David Masover wrote:
> Horst von Brand wrote: > >> There are lots of reports of ReiserFS 3 >> filesystems completely destroyed by minor hardware flakiness. > > > Honestly, this is one of the things I like about Linux. If I have > memory errors, Windows will just keep running, occasionally something > will crash, you restart it, never suspecting just how corrupt things > are getting under the hood. On Linux, I generally get kernel panics > pretty quickly, so I run memtest86 and replace the RAM. > > If my hardware is flaky, I consider it my job to replace it, not the > job of all my software to magically compensate for it. If I lose > data, oh well, I have backups. If I didn't, I was asking for trouble > anyway.
I'm of the same opinion. If I have hardware that has a problem, and causes downtime, it gets replaced or repaired. I don't switch to a different piece of software to compensate for broken hardware.
With that said, I have seen ReiserFS expose hardware that had problems. Hardware was repaired, and ReiserFS rides again.
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