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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: "Ohlsson, Fredrik (GE Healthcare,
	consultant)" <Fredrik.Ohlsson@ge.com>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext4 settings in an embedded system
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:43:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1353321836.20111.36.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50A65F64.3020603@redhat.com>

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On Fri, 2012-11-16 at 09:44 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > I do not know for sure, but I doubt there is serious power-cut testing
> > regularly conducted for ext4, but people may correct me.
> 
> We do it here, though maybe not as regularly as we should.
> I also periodically test journal replay, but not in a way that simulates
> lost write caches or misbehaving hardware.  OTOH, those things are out
> of our control in the real world (if users disable barriers, or if the
> hardware lies to us).

Good to know, thanks. I actually now recall Josef mentioned that RedHad
does some power-cut testing.

> But you absolutely should test YOUR system, audit YOUR software, and
> YOUR configuration to be sure that it is behaving as you require.

Sure.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-19 10:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-14 10:41 ext4 settings in an embedded system Ohlsson, Fredrik (GE Healthcare, consultant)
2012-11-14 20:51 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-11-15  8:42 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-11-15 10:01   ` Andrey Sidorov
2012-11-15 10:38     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-11-16 15:40     ` Eric Sandeen
2012-11-19 10:42       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-11-16 15:44   ` Eric Sandeen
2012-11-19 10:43     ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2012-11-16 15:56 ` Eric Sandeen
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2012-11-16 16:18 Ohlsson, Fredrik (GE Healthcare, consultant)
2012-11-16 16:58 ` Eric Sandeen

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