On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Hans Reiser wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > 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.
If you can chose between sucky performance or a chance
at silent data corruption ... which would you chose ?
Rik
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