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SubjectRe: [patch] ext2/3: document conditions when reliable operation is possible
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On Saturday 29 August 2009 05:05:58 Pavel Machek wrote:
> 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.

The filesystem itself isn't more dangerous, but it may provide a false sense of
security when used on storage devices it wasn't designed for.

Rob
--
Latency is more important than throughput. It's that simple. - Linus Torvalds


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