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A panic should stop the processor dead, no data should be corrected as a result. Data in flight should not be used if you use transactional I/O and therefore wi
by TickleSteve 9y ago
A panic should stop the processor dead, no data should be corrected as a result.
Data in flight should not be used if you use transactional I/O and therefore will not be used if a write does not complete.
- __david__ 9y agoThat's fine in theory, but it didn't stop my disk from being corrupted. If the computer hadn't panicked, my data would still be available.
- TickleSteve 9y agoits not theory... your system wasn't designed to be fault-tolerant in that manner. Systems that matter, are.
- __david__ 9y agoThe linux kernel needs to work with both tolerant and non-tolerant systems. Saying it needs to work a specific way that completely breaks real world things is completely naive, and exactly what Linus was railing against.