[geeks] Solaris 10 / OpenSolaris bits to be in next version of OSX

[Phil Stracchino]

der Mouse wrote:
>> If, for example, a block didn't get written to disk half-way down the
>> tree (eg, the disk didn't write it for some reason) then it knows not
>> to trust anything below that point and it will go to the redundant
>> copy.
> 
> Maybe it's just me, but I'd *much* rather get a panic in that case
> rather than silently using the redundant copy.  If my system is
> silently failing to write data to disk, something is critically wrong,
> whether hardware or software, and I'd much rather it crashed, or at
> least failed the relevant drive out of service, than pretended
> everything is fine.


But which would you prefer:  Panic, go down, and lose the data, or
transparently repair the data, keep running, and scream bloody murder to
alert you about the failure?



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