> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Simon Kirby <sim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Not aborting on data write error: User loses data. File system gets very > > confused. > > > > What am I missing? > > I can think of certain situations when companies may care about > getting most of the data to disk and clean it up later. > Datacenters may be replicating the data to many spindles and may > sometimes care about throughput as much as possible. So lossy data > could be preferred to complete data. > > Not saying this is always preferred but I can see a use case. Ok, fine, in this case they might know what they are doing. Still, this is not reason enough to default the case in point... ? :) Simon- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
