Messages in this thread | | | From | James A Sutherland <> | Subject | Re: ext3 vs resiserfs vs xfs | Date | Wed, 7 Nov 2001 20:44:25 +0000 |
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On Wednesday 07 November 2001 7:38 pm, Ville Herva wrote: > On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 04:31:24PM +0000, you [James A Sutherland] claimed: > > Hm.. after a decidedly unclean shutdown, I decided to force an fsck here > > and my ext3 partition DID have two inode errors on fsck... (Having said > > that, the last entry in syslog was from the SCSI driver, and ext3's > > journalling probably doesn't help much when the disk it's on goes > > AWOL...) > > A stupid question: does ext3 replay the journal before fsck? If not, the > inode errors would be expected...
Yes, it does: this was AFTER the journal replay. And yes, it was ext3 not ext2 mounting it (well, either that or ext2 has learned to do journal replays...). So, AFTER a journal replay, there were still two damaged inodes - which sounds like Anton's problem. Maybe ext3 just hates Cambridge? :-)
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