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Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 19:04:54 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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Subject: Re: ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption
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On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Hans Reiser wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> > 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.

If you can chose between sucky performance or a chance
at silent data corruption ... which would you chose ?

Rik
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