Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 12:30:12AM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:
> > But there is not one where they recover from invalid arguments without a panic
> > (unless I failed to notice something),
>
> Right.
>
> > so it gets you nothing except a message
> > that we the developers will find more informative when trying to find what made
> > it crash.
>
> Nope. It does a reiserfs_panic instead of letting the wrong arguments
> slipping into lower layers and possibly on disk and thus corrupting data.
>
> And in my opinion correct data is much more worth than one crash more or
> less (especially with a journaling filesystem).
The cost is not a crash, the cost is performance sucks.
>
> Christoph
>
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Are you going to leave it on for future versions of ReiserFS, or just for Linux
2.4.2?
Hans
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