Re: Corrupted/unreadable journal: reiser vs. ext3

[Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>]

Hello!

On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:32:42AM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote:

> > I really like
> >systems that can still boot and let me (attempt to) run diagnostic
> >tools even when they're otherwise really unhealthy.  I don't care if
> >recently written data is corrupt or missing--I probably didn't write to
> >the diagnostic tools within the last journal interval, and if the
> >filesystem is read-only I can't make any metadata corruption worse.
> >I would think that most people notice that something's wrong if they
> >can't write to their filesystems any more.  I certainly wouldn't want
> >the filesystem to be modified if there's something known to be wrong
> >with the metadata.  But if I can't read any of the data at all because
> >some tiny part of it is suspicious, I just get annoyed.  :-P
> Agreed.  I think that this is actually what we do currently.  Oleg, can 
> you check that?

Currently we panic if write to journal area fails. We report IO error to
userspace if non-journaled write fails it seems (I will check it again).

Bye,
    Oleg