Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jun 2006 21:34:31 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 |
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Hi!
> >Please don't. AFAIK, ext2/3 is only filesystem with > >working fsck > >(because that fsck was actually needed in the old > >days). Starting from > >xfs/jfs/reiser/??? means we no longer have working > >fsck... > > Er, what do you mean by "working fsck"?
Passes 8 hours of me trying to intentionally break it with weird, artifical disk corruption.
I even have script somewhere.
> Unless I'm misunderstanding something, JFS also has a > working fsck > (which has actually performed successful repair of > real-world > filesystem corruption for me, although I haven't used it > as much as > e2fsck or xfs_repair).
...like, if it repaired 100 different, non-trivial corruptions, that would be argument.
fsck.ext2 survives my torture (in some versions). fsck.vfat never worked for me (likes to segfault), fsck.reiser never worked for me.
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