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    SubjectRe: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?
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    > Unless Stephen says otherwise, my understanding is that a crash during
    > journal recovery will just mean the journal is replayed again at the next
    > recovery. Because the ext3 journal is just a series of data blocks to
    > be copied into the filesystem (rather than "actions" to be done), it
    > doesn't matter how many times it is done. The recovery flags are not
    > reset until after the journal replay is completed.

    Which means an ext3 volume cannot be recovered on a hard disk error.

    Alan

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