From: Simon Kirby <sim@netnation.com>
To: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@gmail.com>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: EXT3 way too happy with write errors
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 18:15:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090103021516.GE9995@hostway.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <532480950812181029k1baf8264y82fb6d9760fe05f8@mail.gmail.com>
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Simon Kirby <sim@netnation.com> wrote:
> > Not aborting on data write error: User loses data. File system gets very
> > confused.
> >
> > What am I missing?
>
> I can think of certain situations when companies may care about
> getting most of the data to disk and clean it up later.
> Datacenters may be replicating the data to many spindles and may
> sometimes care about throughput as much as possible. So lossy data
> could be preferred to complete data.
>
> Not saying this is always preferred but I can see a use case.
Ok, fine, in this case they might know what they are doing. Still, this
is not reason enough to default the case in point... ?
:)
Simon-
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-03 2:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-15 0:22 EXT3 way too happy with write errors Simon Kirby
2008-12-18 17:07 ` Jan Kara
2008-12-18 17:18 ` Simon Kirby
2008-12-18 17:27 ` Jan Kara
2008-12-18 17:49 ` Simon Kirby
2008-12-18 18:29 ` Michael Rubin
2009-01-03 2:15 ` Simon Kirby [this message]
2009-01-03 2:45 ` Eric Sandeen
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