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SubjectRe: [patch] ext2/3: document conditions when reliable operation is possible
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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