From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Wed, 06 Sep 2006 02:05:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ipmail01.adl2.internode.on.net (ipmail01.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.140]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id k8695QDW028542 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 02:05:27 -0700 Subject: Re: review: propogate return codes from flush routines From: Stewart Smith In-Reply-To: <44FD476C.3080009@sgi.com> References: <44FC0D0F.60403@sgi.com> <1157442848.5844.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> <44FD476C.3080009@sgi.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-gPawd9S+B0i9EHYg4K07" Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:04:41 +1000 Message-Id: <1157533481.12018.33.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: lachlan@sgi.com Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com --=-gPawd9S+B0i9EHYg4K07 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 10:46 +0100, Lachlan McIlroy wrote:=20 > What's a really catastrophic error? I think I've just spent too much time with HA database clusters... good temporary errors "out of resource", okay temp errors "node failed" or "lost connection", bad errors "cluster failure", catastrophic "and your data is gone too and backups haven't been working". :) I sometimes forget that the rest of the world can just have "errors". --=20 Stewart Smith (stewart@flamingspork.com) http://www.flamingspork.com/ --=-gPawd9S+B0i9EHYg4K07 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBE/o8pKglWCUL+FDoRAombAJ0fA7xS8OwxEHxDuvSOqKN94eVLHACeNmbb iXqYChHx+J7Pv7WAh0b3Xwg= =cwTV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-gPawd9S+B0i9EHYg4K07--