Yeah I mean the general discussion, not you specifically. Thanks, Josef
On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 8:38 PM Eric Sandeen <sand...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 7/2/20 4:44 PM, Josef Bacik wrote: > > We're talking about this issue like it's reasonable that xfs and ext4 > are going to allow the user to get back a bunch of data they don't know is > ok or not. We're also talking about it like the user should be able to > carry on his happy merry way. In these cases the drive is dying and needs > to be shredded, and a new install needs to happen and a restore from > backups needs to happen. Is the btrfs failure much less user friendly? No > doubt about it. Is it any comfort at all when a user shows up and we say > "where are your backups" and they say "what backups?", no. But if we're > going to talk about this like ext4 and xfs are much better because they > give you the _appearance_ that your data is fine, that's a bit disingenuous. > > If I had talked about it like that, it would have been disingenuous. > > But I didn't; this was an investigation of resiliency to metadata > corruption, not data error detection, and to what degree metadata > corruption can render files or even entire filesystems unreachable after > normal administrative recovery efforts. > > -Eric > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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