Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:49:29 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Add a norecovery option to ext3/4? |
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Hi!
> >You might not damage the underlying filesystem, but you > >could sure go > >off in the weeds trying to read it, if you stumbled > >upon some > >half-updated metadata... so while it may be safe for > >the filesystem, I'm > >not convinced that it's safe for the host reading the > >filesystem. > > > Exactly. If the data are protected you can use other > software to access it. For ext3 an explicit ext2 mount > might do it...
It does not :-(. dirty ext3 is marked incompatible with ext2.
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