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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 01:21:09 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B65CFC5.A6B4FC08@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200107281645.f6SGjA620666@ns.caldera.de> <3B653211.FD28320@namesys.com> <20010730210644.A5488@caldera.de> <3B65C3D4.FF8EB12D@namesys.com> <20010730224930.A18311@caldera.de>

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-07-30 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 140+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-18  4:14 ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption Sam Thompson
2001-07-18  5:18 ` Steve Kieu
2001-07-18 16:22   ` Erik Mouw
2001-07-19  2:02     ` Steve Kieu
2001-07-19 13:28       ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-19 15:50       ` Erik Mouw
2001-07-27 12:52     ` bvermeul
2001-07-27 12:55       ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 13:24         ` bvermeul
2001-07-27 14:18           ` Joshua Schmidlkofer
2001-07-27 14:55             ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 15:02               ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-27 16:06                 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-07-27 22:02                 ` Luigi Genoni
2001-07-28 13:45               ` Matthew Gardiner
2001-07-28 16:15                 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-28 16:45                 ` Marcus Meissner
2001-07-28 16:45                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-07-29 10:19                   ` Matthew Gardiner
2001-07-29 11:04                     ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-30 10:08                   ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-30 19:06                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-07-30 20:30                       ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-30 20:49                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-07-30 21:05                           ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-30 21:29                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-07-30 21:44                               ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-30 21:48                               ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-30 21:57                                 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-30 21:58                                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-07-31  7:45                                 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-07-31  9:55                                   ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-31 10:24                                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2001-07-31 10:24                                     ` Anders Eriksson
2001-07-31 10:32                                       ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-31 17:01                                       ` [OT] " J Sloan
2001-07-30 21:59                             ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-30 22:34                               ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-31 11:34                                 ` David Weinehall
2001-07-31 12:22                                   ` ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption (patch to cause redhat to unmount reiserfs on halt included) Hans Reiser
2001-07-31 12:37                                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-07-31 13:12                                       ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-30 22:41                               ` ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption Kip Macy
2001-07-30 22:50                                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-07-30 21:13                           ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-30 21:21                           ` Hans Reiser [this message]
2001-07-30 21:49                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-07-31  2:34                               ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-30 22:04                             ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-30 22:36                               ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-30 22:53                                 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-30 23:12                                   ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-31 10:32                                 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-31 10:59                                   ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-31 11:42                                     ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-31 13:41                                     ` Chris Mason
2001-07-31 15:15                                       ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-31 15:58                                         ` Chris Mason
2001-07-31 15:22                                       ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-31 15:49                                         ` Chris Mason
2001-07-31 22:08                               ` Jussi Laako
2001-07-31 22:32                                 ` Dan Hollis
2001-07-31 23:45                                   ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-05 22:19                                   ` CRC loop method (was Re: ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption) Pavel Machek
2001-08-01 16:23                                 ` ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption Andreas Dilger
2001-08-02 13:44                         ` Pavel Machek
2001-07-27 15:06             ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-27 15:33               ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 16:30                 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-27 16:49                   ` Early Flush Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 15:07             ` ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-27 16:39             ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-27 16:57               ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 17:28                 ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-27 17:45                   ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 17:10               ` Steve Lord
2001-07-27 14:48           ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 15:04             ` bvermeul
2001-07-27 15:38               ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 17:29                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-27 18:47                   ` bvermeul
2001-07-27 19:22                     ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-28  6:19                       ` bvermeul
2001-07-28  7:39                         ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 19:30                     ` Jussi Laako
2001-07-28  6:21                       ` bvermeul
2001-07-27 21:49                     ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-27 20:49                 ` Lehmann 
2001-07-28 14:13           ` Matthew Gardiner
2001-07-28 14:40             ` bvermeul
2001-07-18  9:42 ` Hans Reiser
     [not found]   ` <3B5579E7.5090107@namesys.com>
2001-07-18 16:26     ` Sam Thompson
2001-07-18 16:34       ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-18 13:09 ` Andre Pang
     [not found] <no.id>
2001-07-27 13:27 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-27 13:38   ` bvermeul
2001-07-27 13:39     ` Alan Cox
2001-07-27 13:47       ` bvermeul
2001-07-27 13:49         ` Alan Cox
2001-07-28 14:16       ` Matthew Gardiner
2001-08-08 18:42       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-07-27 14:16   ` Philip R. Auld
2001-07-27 14:38     ` Jordan
2001-07-27 14:51     ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 15:12       ` Philip R. Auld
2001-07-27 14:23   ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 14:21 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-28 14:18   ` Matthew Gardiner
2001-07-28 16:25     ` Alan Cox
2001-07-29 10:15       ` Matthew Gardiner
2001-07-29 11:10         ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-29 14:28           ` Luigi Genoni
2001-07-29 11:16     ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-07-27 15:06 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-27 15:26   ` Joshua Schmidlkofer
2001-07-27 15:46     ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 17:46       ` Christoph Rohland
2001-07-27 18:02         ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 18:10       ` Dustin Byford
2001-07-27 19:20         ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-28 16:10       ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-07-27 15:31   ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 16:25     ` Kip Macy
2001-07-27 17:29       ` Ville Herva
2001-07-27 17:40         ` Alan Cox
2001-07-27 17:43           ` Ville Herva
2001-07-27 20:46   ` Lehmann 
2001-07-27 21:13     ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 15:51 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-27 16:41   ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 16:55 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-27 21:24 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-27 21:47   ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 22:10 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-28  7:36   ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-28 14:08     ` Chris Mason
2001-07-27 15:13 Cress, Andrew R
2001-07-30 15:24 Chris Mason
2001-07-30 15:47 ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-30 16:04   ` Chris Mason

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