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From: Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
To: Gionatan Danti <g.danti@assyoma.it>,
	Roger Heflin <rogerheflin@gmail.com>
Cc: Reindl Harald <h.reindl@thelounge.net>,
	Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.net>,
	Linux RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Filesystem corruption on RAID1
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 18:33:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5995D377.9080100@youngman.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7ca98351facca6e3668d3271422e1376@assyoma.it>

On 17/08/17 15:31, Gionatan Danti wrote:
> However, the entire idea of barriers/cache flushes/FUAs was to *safely
> enable* unprotected write caches, even in the face of powerloss. Indeed,
> for full-system powerloss their are adequate. However, device-level
> micro-powerlosses seem to pose an bigger threat to data reliability.

Which is fine until the drive, bluntly put, lies to you. Cheaper drives
are prone to this, in order to look good in benchmarks. Especially as
it's hard to detect until you get screwed over by exactly this sort of
thing.

Cheers,
Wol

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-17 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-13 15:35 Filesystem corruption on RAID1 Gionatan Danti
2017-07-13 16:48 ` Roman Mamedov
2017-07-13 21:28   ` Gionatan Danti
2017-07-13 21:34     ` Reindl Harald
2017-07-13 22:34       ` Gionatan Danti
2017-07-14  0:32         ` Reindl Harald
2017-07-14  0:52           ` Anthony Youngman
2017-07-14  1:10             ` Reindl Harald
2017-07-14 10:46           ` Gionatan Danti
2017-07-14 10:58             ` Reindl Harald
2017-08-17  8:23             ` Gionatan Danti
2017-08-17 12:41               ` Roger Heflin
2017-08-17 14:31                 ` Gionatan Danti
2017-08-17 17:33                   ` Wols Lists [this message]
2017-08-17 20:50                     ` Gionatan Danti
2017-08-17 21:01                       ` Roger Heflin
2017-08-17 21:21                         ` Gionatan Danti
2017-08-17 21:23                           ` Gionatan Danti
2017-08-17 22:51                       ` Wols Lists
2017-08-18 12:26                         ` Gionatan Danti
2017-08-18 12:54                           ` Roger Heflin
2017-08-18 19:42                             ` Gionatan Danti
2017-08-20  7:14                               ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2017-08-20  7:24                                 ` Gionatan Danti
2017-08-20 10:43                                   ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2017-08-20 13:07                                     ` Wols Lists
2017-08-20 15:38                                       ` Adam Goryachev
2017-08-20 15:48                                         ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2017-08-20 16:10                                           ` Wols Lists
2017-08-20 23:11                                             ` Adam Goryachev
2017-08-21 14:03                                               ` Anthony Youngman
2017-08-20 19:11                                           ` Gionatan Danti
2017-08-20 19:03                                         ` Gionatan Danti
2017-08-20 19:01                                       ` Gionatan Danti
2017-08-31 22:55                                     ` Robert L Mathews
2017-09-01  5:39                                       ` Reindl Harald
2017-09-01 23:14                                         ` Robert L Mathews
2017-08-20 23:22                                 ` Chris Murphy
2017-08-21  5:57                                   ` Gionatan Danti
2017-08-21  8:37                                   ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2017-08-21 12:28                                     ` Gionatan Danti
2017-08-21 14:09                                       ` Anthony Youngman
2017-08-21 17:33                                     ` Chris Murphy
2017-08-21 17:52                                       ` Reindl Harald
2017-07-14  1:48         ` Chris Murphy
2017-07-14  7:22           ` Roman Mamedov

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