Re: Data integrity built into the storage stack

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> I do agree that we do have to be more prepared for collateral damage
> scenarios.  As we discussed at LS we have 4KB drives coming out that can
> invalidate previously acknowledged I/Os if it gets a subsequent write
> failure on a sector.  And there's also the issue of fractured writes

Hmmm, future will be interesting.

'ext3 expects disks to behave like disks from 1995' (alarming).

									Pavel

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