Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:48:33 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Murphy hits (Kernel 2.6, ext2, "check=strict"): corrupted filesystem |
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Hi!
> I'd like to present a little story how to shredder your ext2 filesystem: > > I was installing SuSE Linux 9.1 when the kernel froze rather late during > installation. So I had to reset the PC. There is a minor bug in the forementioned
You call this "minor"?
> Why I'm writing this: If something can go wrong, eventually it will. For a true > disaster you always need more than just one problem (1: Kernel freeze, 2: no fsck > being run, 3: kernel happily mounts unclean filesystem for read-write).
3 is feature. It prints warning, but lets you mount it. I sometimes mount broken fs's rw; it actually saved me once when I was hitting fsck bug. It is also handy when quickly recovering scratch machine.
MS-DOS had no fsck... and survive. ext2 can survive with similar results if you just dont fsck...
> I think nobody really wants to read reports where Linux has shreddered a > filesystem, do we?
I actually liked your report ;-). Pavel -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms
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