From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Cc: Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>,
William Stearns <wstearns@pobox.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes in reiser4 (brief attempt to document the idea ofwhat reiser4 wants to do with metafiles and why
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 18:07:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1094836040.17990.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4141E8DD.8050700@namesys.com>
On Gwe, 2004-09-10 at 18:48, Hans Reiser wrote:
> Is there a technical basis for your claim that we have trouble with disk
> errors?
>
> Do you mean badblocks support or what?
I mean probability of gettng your data back after a disk loses data. And
the technical basis for my claims is twofold - painful experience is
one, and shooting random blocks of zeros onto a disk and run fsck tools
is another.
> I think it would be reasonable for people to say that our approach
> currently has bugs, we should turn metafiles off until we make the bugs
> go away.
Well reiserfs4 is a lot more than metafiles and new vfs layer concepts.
Clearly those parts of the the fs that don't require core fs changes
belong in the kernel as soon as everyone is happy they are clean enough
and look correct.
Metafiles and openat() are an argument we can all have later.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-10 18:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-29 20:21 silent semantic changes in reiser4 (brief attempt to document the idea of what reiser4 wants to do with metafiles and why Hans Reiser
2004-08-31 13:12 ` Pavel Machek
2004-08-31 13:36 ` Christian Mayrhuber
2004-09-07 20:16 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-07 20:59 ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-08 9:14 ` Romano Giannetti
2004-09-07 21:05 ` William Stearns
2004-09-07 22:09 ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-09-09 9:03 ` silent semantic changes in reiser4 (brief attempt to document the idea ofwhat " Theodore Ts'o
2004-09-09 17:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 18:09 ` Gunnar Ritter
2004-09-09 19:15 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-09 20:45 ` Paul Jakma
2004-09-10 0:57 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-10 1:15 ` Paul Jakma
2004-09-10 5:04 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-10 5:53 ` viro
2004-09-10 6:52 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-10 7:05 ` viro
2004-09-10 7:30 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-10 16:49 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-10 17:23 ` viro
2004-09-10 7:21 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-10 7:33 ` viro
2004-09-10 7:46 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-10 8:18 ` viro
2004-09-10 9:20 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-10 17:48 ` Hans Reiser
2004-09-10 17:07 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-09-10 13:08 ` Horst von Brand
2004-09-10 3:22 ` Horst von Brand
2004-09-12 20:43 ` Davide Inglima
2004-09-10 9:42 ` Helge Hafting
2004-09-10 17:42 ` Horst von Brand
[not found] ` <20040910201738.GB8698@eskimo.com>
2004-09-14 8:39 ` Helge Hafting
2004-08-31 14:09 ` silent semantic changes in reiser4 (brief attempt to document the idea of what " Mike Waychison
2004-08-31 17:55 ` V13
2004-08-31 18:17 ` Spam
2004-08-31 19:08 ` Tonnerre
2004-08-31 19:38 ` Spam
2004-09-01 3:11 ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-08-31 19:35 ` V13
[not found] ` <874qmjm51g.fsf@uhoreg.ca>
2004-08-31 20:31 ` Spam
[not found] ` <87vfezkm06.fsf@uhoreg.ca>
2004-08-31 22:15 ` Spam
2004-08-31 19:49 ` Chris Dawes
2004-09-01 6:03 ` Hans Reiser
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