[Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] Project Banbury

[Laurent Pinchart]

Hi Matthew,

On Friday, 14 September 2018 20:28:01 EEST Matthew Wilcox 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?
> 
> This session would be more of a discussion than a presentation since I've
> not written a single line of code towards fixing the problem. I have
> written a web page sketching out an architecture for how we might make this
> work:
> 
> http://www.wil.cx/~willy/banbury.html

Having lost a server due to a DDoS attach that rendered the link between CPU 
and storage unusable for a too long time, I think this would be an amazing 
improvement.

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart