Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 May 2001 16:00:41 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption. |
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On Mon, 7 May 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: > OTOH with current way if you make mistake in kernel, fsck will not > automatically inherit it; therefore fsck is likely to work even if > kernel ext2 is b0rken [and that's fairly important]
... and by the same logics you should make fsck implement its own drivers - after all, right now b0rken driver affects both the kernel ext2 and fsck ;-)
I'm not sure that fsck of fs mounted read/write is worth doing in the first place, but I'd rather do that via fs/ext2 exporting its metadata explicitly than by playing silly buggers with device/fs coherency.
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