Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jul 1997 17:57:20 +0000 ( ) | From | Benjamin C R LaHaise <> | Subject | Ext2 Group Descriptors (Re: corrupt block makes file system repair impossible?) |
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On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Thomas Koenig wrote: [snip] > Is this true? What's the point in having multiple superblocks if > trashing a single sector can still completely wreck your file system?
This is a big problem with ext2 in my opinion - I've trashed filesystems on my SCSI drive several times while running with an IDE drive (probably stack overwrites/cruddy ide controller). In 99% of cases I believe the group descriptors are useless on disk - a piece of information that can be corrupted, yet e2fsck doesn't give an option to 'fix' it. What approach can we take to fix this?
-ben
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