Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Jul 2000 06:27:59 -0700 (PDT) | From | Chris Mason <> | Subject | Re: ext3-0.0.2e released |
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On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Jesse Pollard wrote:
> Ookhoi <ookhoi@dds.nl>: > > Hi Miquel, > > > > > In article <cistron.20000706093557.F13402@ookhoi.dds.nl>, > > > Ookhoi <ookhoi@dds.nl> wrote: > > > >Why not use Reiserfs? I think journaling is a must with disks that > > > >large, and reiserfs is faster dan ext2 if you have a lot of files/dirs > > > >in a directory. > > > > > > Ehrm. Look at the subject of this thread. What do you think "ext3" is ;) > > > > Yeah, I know, but then again, why do they all want to fsck? We have so > > many nice journaling file systems now. > > Every filesystem has the potential to loose data blocks. Journaling filesystems > maintain the necessary metadata to access allocated blocks without logical > failures. BUT - sometimes deallocated blocks get lost. hence the need for > some form of fsck that can rebuild it. >
But, they really should not. The latest ext3 release has code to prevent these lost files from chewing up space (by finishing the delete after a crash), and I've got something similar for reiserfs almost done.
This does not remove the need for fsck. The list of ways data can be lost is huge ;-)
-chris
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