Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:10:28 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [patch] ext2/3: document conditions when reliable operation is possible |
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>>> The metadata is just a way to get to my data, while the data >>> is actually important. >> >> Personally, I care about metadata consistency, and ext3 documentation >> suggests that journal protects its integrity. Except that it does not >> on broken storage devices, and you still need to run fsck there. > > as the ext3 authors have stated many times over the years, you still need > to run fsck periodicly anyway.
Where is that documented? I very much agree with that, but when suse10 switched periodic fsck off, I could not find any docs to show that it is bad idea. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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