Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

Dan Oglesby
2005-09-18T21:43:33Z

David Masover wrote:

> Horst von Brand wrote:
>
>> There are lots of reports of ReiserFS 3
>> filesystems completely destroyed by minor hardware flakiness.
>
>
> Honestly, this is one of the things I like about Linux. If I have
> memory errors, Windows will just keep running, occasionally something
> will crash, you restart it, never suspecting just how corrupt things
> are getting under the hood. On Linux, I generally get kernel panics
> pretty quickly, so I run memtest86 and replace the RAM.
>
> If my hardware is flaky, I consider it my job to replace it, not the
> job of all my software to magically compensate for it. If I lose
> data, oh well, I have backups. If I didn't, I was asking for trouble
> anyway.

I'm of the same opinion. If I have hardware that has a problem, and
causes downtime, it gets replaced or repaired. I don't switch to a
different piece of software to compensate for broken hardware.

With that said, I have seen ReiserFS expose hardware that had problems.
Hardware was repaired, and ReiserFS rides again.

--Dan