Theodore Ts'o wrote: >On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 09:41:36AM -0500, David Masover wrote: > > >>And personally, if it was my FS, I'd stop working on fsck after it was >>able to "check". That's what it's for. To fix an FS, you wipe it and >>restore from backups. >> >> > >If that's Reiser4's philosophy, just make sure you tell all of your >prospective users about ahead of time. Is it really an explicit goal >that performance is so important beyond all other considerations that >it's OK if the filesystem is extremely fragile and that if anything >goes wrong, you have to wipe things and recover from backups?!? > >I just want to make sure that's the official word and reflects the >official philosophy of the reiser4 designers before I start telling >users that this is a good reason to avoid reiser4 like the plague. > > Ted, please acknowledge that you read my email replying to David. I know you'd really like to get going with the FUD, but.....
David is a Reiser4 user, not a developer, and while he is usually very savvy and over modest, we all make mistakes in what we say, and this was his turn.
