From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy6545@gmail.com>
Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] Project Banbury
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 00:58:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9928.1537142282@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFhKne8kiF6k-QUJ9x-cCyBcVvfuWKdcUtQZNz=1sx_iHR+64g@mail.gmail.com>
Matthew Wilcox <willy6545@gmail.com> wrote:
> We've all pulled the wrong drive out of a machine or unplugged a USB key
> before the write back has completely finished. You try to plug it back in,
> but the damage is done. The pending writes are lost, the filesystem is
> damaged and full of errors and you are having a Bad Day. What if
> ... plugging the drive back in could be made to work?
Is this something fscache could be made to help with? Though that might be
more at a filesystem level than a blockdev level.
David
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-16 23:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-14 17:28 Matthew Wilcox
2018-09-16 10:53 ` Hannes Reinecke
2018-09-16 12:45 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-09-18 8:17 ` Hannes Reinecke
2018-09-16 16:03 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-16 16:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-09-16 16:37 ` James Bottomley
2018-09-16 19:25 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-16 23:58 ` David Howells [this message]
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