On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:06:56PM +0800, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > On Nov 23, 2011, at 8:27 AM, Wu Fengguang wrote: > > > > > Reading Ted's information feed, I tend to disregard the partial write > > issue: since the "broken" applications will already fail and get > > punished in various other cases, I don't care adding one more penalty > > case to them :-P > > Just wait until you have a bunch of rabid application programmers, > questioning your judgement, your morality, and even your paternity. > :-) Ah OK, that sounds frightening. Hmm, till now every one have acknowledged the possibility of data corruption, only that people have different perceptions of the severeness. Let's rethink things this way: "Is it a _worthwhile_ risk at all?" I'm afraid not. Considering the origin of this patch [BUG] aborted ext4 leads to inifinity loop in balance_dirty_pages http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg28464.html I *think* Jan's first patch is already enough for fixing the bug. IWO the patch we worried/discussed so much is really an optional one. I would imagine the easy and safe solution is to just drop it. Any objections? Thanks, Fengguang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
