"Greg A. Woods" <woods%planix.ca@localhost> writes: > At Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:23:40 -0600, Eric Haszlakiewicz > <erh%nimenees.com@localhost> wrote: > Subject: Re: Lost file-system story >> >> Donald, don't listen to Greg. Just in case it needs to be repeated, you're >> not the only one that thinks it is reasonable to expect a non-0 probability >> that things will be recovereable, even if something goes wrong. > > Eric, what part of MNT_ASYNC don't you understand? He seems to understand it quite well. Donald came here not complaining, just surprised that things were somewhat worse than one would have expected. And he's right - "async" doesn't mean "and data might never be written indefinitely", just that there are no ordering or completion guarantees. I'm not 100% clear what is wrong, but it seems likely that this discussion has surfaced a bug or two
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