Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:05:58 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [patch] ext2/3: document conditions when reliable operation is possible |
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On Fri 2009-08-28 07:49:38, david@lang.hm wrote: > On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Rob Landley wrote: > >> Pavel's response was to attempt to document this. Not that journaling is >> _bad_, but that it doesn't protect against this class of problem. > > I don't think anyone is disagreeing with the statement that journaling > doesn't protect against this class of problems, but Pavel's statements > didn't say that. he stated that ext3 is more dangerous than ext2.
Well, if you use 'common' fsck policy, ext3 _is_ more dangerous.
But I'm not pushing that to documentation, I'm trying to push info everyone agrees with. (check the patches). Pavel
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