Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet

From: Daniel Phillips
Date: Thu Mar 13 2008 - 02:14:40 EST


On Wednesday 12 March 2008 22:39, David Newall wrote:
> Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > Particularly about Ext2/Ext3, which does recover well from random damage.
> > My experience.
>
> By "recover well", you must mean "loses massive swabs of data, leaving
> the system unbootable and with enormous numbers of user files missing."
> My experience.
>
> Expecting fsck to cover for missed writes is stupid.

Whatever it can get off the disk it gets. It does a good job. If you
don't think so, then don't tell me, tell Ted.

Daniel
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