From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sam Vilain Subject: Re: Corrupted/unreadable journal: reiser vs. ext3 Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 05:09:36 +1300 Sender: Sam Vilain Message-ID: <200302130509.36099.sam@vilain.net> References: <20030211144144.A5A9.MIKE@mystica.cx> <20030211171139.A5B3.MIKE@mystica.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <20030211171139.A5B3.MIKE@mystica.cx> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Mike Hodson Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:02, Mike Hodson wrote: > Well one way of being completely sure is to reset the mount count in th= e > filesystem before rebooting, or to set the fstab to never automatically > fsck. then on some set schedule, fsck along with a kernel upgrade, and > schedule the downtime Nah. Set up a mirror, wait for a fairly quiet time, sync, split the=20 mirror, fsck the split mirror, and only do something if that fsck fails=20 :-). Solaris does all this very well. It's equivalent of `md-utils' - Online=20 Disk Suite - does journalling for you of all writes (including data) if=20 you turn it on; at the block level, ignorant of the FS. IMHO that's a=20 much better place to do the journalling. It's simple, solid. --=20 Sam Vilain, sam@vilain.net Do you have blacks, too? - George W. Bush, talking to Fernando Henrique Cardoso (the president of Brazil). Reported in Der Speigel on May 19 2002. Never reported in any US paper or news source.