Re: [patch] ext2/3: document conditions when reliable operation ispossible

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Tue Aug 25 2009 - 20:17:02 EST


On Tue 2009-08-25 20:11:21, Ric Wheeler wrote:
> On 08/25/2009 07:53 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
>>> Why don't you hold all of your most precious data on that single S-ATA
>>> drive for five year on one box and put a second copy on a small RAID5
>>> with ext3 for the same period?
>>>
>>> Repeat experiment until you get up to something like google scale or the
>>> other papers on failures in national labs in the US and then we can have
>>> an informed discussion.
>>
>> I'm not interested in discussing statistics with you. I'd rather discuss
>> fsync() and storage design issues.
>>
>> ext3 is designed to work on single SATA disks, and it is not designed
>> to work on flash cards/degraded MD RAID5s, as Ted acknowledged.
>
> You are simply incorrect, Ted did not say that ext3 does not work
> with MD raid5.

http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/25/312
Pavel
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