Re: kernel bug in file-item.c

Dmitri Nikulin
2009-05-01T02:13:30Z

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:54 AM, Tracy Reed <treed@ultraviolet.org> wrote:
> Sorry, I was unclear: I meant manage in a public-relations sort of
> way. Not in a technical way. You are absolutely right that bad RAM or
> CPU means you are hosed.

Even so, it's a perfect opportunity to not make things worse by trying
to write data after fundamental assertions have already failed. My
most recent data loss scenario with ext3 involved a little
kernel/hardware/whatever glitch that would have been harmless on its
own, but ext3 took as a cue to completely mangle metadata. I found XML
config files with PNG blocks in them, etc.

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Dmitri Nikulin

Centre for Synchrotron Science
Monash University
Victoria 3800, Australia