From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>
Subject: Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 15:29:30 -0500
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To: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Cc: thenewme91@gmail.com, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>, chriswhite@gentoo.org, Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, ReiserFS List <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>

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.