Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 24 Nov 2001 18:03:26 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.0 breakage even with fix? |
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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.
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