From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752621AbZH2Veh (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:34:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752583AbZH2Veg (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:34:36 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:44249 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752574AbZH2Vef (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:34:35 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:33:52 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: david@lang.hm Cc: David Woodhouse , Theodore Tso , Ric Wheeler , Florian Weimer , Goswin von Brederlow , Rob Landley , kernel list , Andrew Morton , mtk.manpages@gmail.com, rdunlap@xenotime.net, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, corbet@lwn.net Subject: Re: [patch] ext2/3: document conditions when reliable operation is possible Message-ID: <20090829213352.GB1375@ucw.cz> References: <20090824205209.GE29763@elf.ucw.cz> <4A930160.8060508@redhat.com> <20090824212518.GF29763@elf.ucw.cz> <20090824223915.GI17684@mit.edu> <20090824230036.GK29763@elf.ucw.cz> <20090825000842.GM17684@mit.edu> <1251362787.4354.373.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20090829100909.GI1634@ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! >> This is really so easy to reproduce, that such speedup is not >> neccessary. Just try the scripts :-). > > so if it doesn't get corrupted after 5 unplugs does that mean that that > particular device doesn't have a problem? or does it just mean you got > lucky? > > would 10 sucessful unplugs mean that it's safe? > > what about 20? I'd say 20 means its safe. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html