Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

[Dan Oglesby <doglesby@teleformix.com>]

David Masover wrote:

> Horst von Brand wrote:
>
> > There are lots of reports of ReiserFS 3
> > filesystems completely destroyed by minor hardware flakiness.
>
>
> Honestly, this is one of the things I like about Linux.  If I have 
> memory errors, Windows will just keep running, occasionally something 
> will crash, you restart it, never suspecting just how corrupt things 
> are getting under the hood.  On Linux, I generally get kernel panics 
> pretty quickly, so I run memtest86 and replace the RAM.
>
> If my hardware is flaky, I consider it my job to replace it, not the 
> job of all my software to magically compensate for it.  If I lose 
> data, oh well, I have backups.  If I didn't, I was asking for trouble 
> anyway.

I'm of the same opinion.  If I have hardware that has a problem, and 
causes downtime, it gets replaced or repaired.  I don't switch to a 
different piece of software to compensate for broken hardware.

With that said, I have seen ReiserFS expose hardware that had problems.  
Hardware was repaired, and ReiserFS rides again.

--Dan
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