Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [POT] Which journalised filesystem ? | From | Billy Harvey <> | Date | 03 Oct 2001 09:00:32 -0400 |
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On Wed, 2001-10-03 at 08:54, Dave Jones wrote:
> I've similar experiences with ext3, except for one bad instance > recently when I put it on my laptop. Lots of asserts were triggered, > and on reboot it couldn't find the journal, the superblock, > or the backup superblocks. I spent a few hours trying to get data > back, and eventually gave up and reformatted as ext2. > > Alan mentioned this was something to do with the IBM hard disk > having strange write-cache properties that confuse ext3. > I'm not sure if this has been fixed or not yet, but its enough > to make me think twice about trying it on the vaio for a while. > > regards, > > Dave.
I've been using ext3 on my ThinkPad (A20P) for about a month now with nary the slightest problem. I've even smoke tested it by shutting it down in the middle of disk writes and it worked fine.
Billy
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