Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:06:39 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Add a norecovery option to ext3/4? |
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Hi!
> >Distribution installers usually try to probe OSes for > >building a suited > >grub menu. Unfortunately, mounting an ext3 partition, > >even in read-only > >mode, does perform some operations on the filesystem > >(log recovery). > >This is not a good idea since it may silently garbage > >data. > > Can you elaborate? Under what circumstances is log > replay going to harm data? Do you mean that the
Suspend machine, boot from CD trying to read from HDD, resume. People lost data because of this trap.
Imagine _broken_ disk, with hw dying. Would you rather replay log, possibly corrupting it even more, or read few files you do care about?
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