Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:03:37 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [patch] ext2/3: document conditions when reliable operation is possible |
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On Wed 2009-08-26 06:43:24, david@lang.hm wrote: > On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Pavel Machek wrote: > >>>>> 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? > > linux-kernel mailing list archives.
That's not where fs documentation belongs :-(. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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