Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown? | Date | Fri, 5 Jan 2001 12:46:19 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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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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