Re: ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption

[Hans Reiser]

The debugging tests in reiserfs were deliberately encouraged to be excessive and
performance unconcerned.  That is part of how we get programmers to write
excessively paranoid bug finding code, we tell them not to worry about the
effect on performance, it will only be used when looking for bugs.

People like you destroy my ability to get lots of tests put into the code by the
coders.

Hans

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).
> 
>         Christoph
> 
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