Re: ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> 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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If you could halve linux memory manager performance and check as many things as
reiserfs checks, would you do it.  I think not, or else you would have.  You
made the right choice.  Now, if you add a #define, you can check as many things
as ReiserFS checks, and still go just as fast....

Hans