Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Jeff Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.0 breakage even with fix? | Date | Sat, 24 Nov 2001 16:14:03 -0700 |
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Al,
I am not seeing any more breakage with this fix with NWFS.
Jeff
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexander Viro" <viro@math.psu.edu> To: "Robert Boermans" <boermans@tfn.net> Cc: "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 4:03 PM Subject: Re: 2.5.0 breakage even with fix?
> > > On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Robert Boermans wrote: > > > If the filesystem is marked clean, does that mean that people with > > journalling file systems are fscked? (since there might be no journal entry > > of what hasn't finished.) > > Well, if filesystem doesn't have a recovery tool that would allow forced > check mode - you _are_ screwed. As you will be again and again if you get > memory corruption/driver bugs/fs bugs/RAID bugs/physical disk problems/etc. > > Again, if filesystem trusts clear bit to the extent that you have no way > to convince it that checks _are_ needed - it's unfit for any serious use. > I suspect that by now everybody had learnt that much - that used to be > a permanent source of problems with early journalling filesystems and AFAIK > all of them had been fixed since then. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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