Re: ReiserFS buglet

[Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>]

Hello!

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 03:30:10PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:

> >>It's a question of which errors one wishes to handle, and which you
> >>simply choose to ignore.
> >Yes, that's true. Reiserfs chose to not handle any HW errors, this is even
> >written somewhere in our FAQ.
> No, this is not true.  We handle IO errors.  We do not attempt to handle 

Ok, IO errors is not kind of HW errors I meant.
I meant broken HW that does not behave like it should behave according
to specs (i.e. writing other data than we asked it, damaging memory
content and stuff).

> every imaginable hardware error because no one can.  If your CPU 
> overheats, our code makes no effort to compensate for it.

Bye,
    Oleg