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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>,
	Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>,
	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	joern@lazybastard.org, tytso@mit.edu
Subject: Re: Add a norecovery option to ext3/4?
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:49:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070415184929.GC10097@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <461D407C.3030706@tmr.com>

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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-15 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-09  0:05 Add a norecovery option to ext3/4? Samuel Thibault
2007-04-09  3:24 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-04-09  3:31   ` Samuel Thibault
2007-04-09  3:42     ` Eric Sandeen
2007-04-09 14:00       ` Theodore Tso
2007-04-09  4:29   ` Brad Campbell
2007-04-09 10:14   ` Andreas Dilger
2007-04-09 13:42   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-04-09 16:37   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-11 20:06   ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-09 15:43 ` Phillip Susi
2007-04-09 16:20   ` Kyle Moffett
2007-04-09 17:21   ` Eric Sandeen
2007-04-10  7:22     ` Jörn Engel
2007-04-10 11:27       ` Theodore Tso
2007-04-10 12:08         ` Jörn Engel
2007-04-10 16:44           ` Matt Mackall
2007-04-10 18:54     ` Phillip Susi
2007-04-10 19:18       ` Eric Sandeen
2007-04-10 22:04         ` Phillip Susi
2007-04-11 20:09         ` Bill Davidsen
2007-04-12 13:54           ` Benny Amorsen
2007-04-15 18:49           ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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2007-05-03  9:07 Tomasz Chmielewski

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