From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: sysrq: don't recommend 'S' 'U' before 'B'
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2019 08:43:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190906084328.6c052d25@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190903160840.56652-1-kilobyte@angband.pl>
On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 18:08:40 +0200
Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:
> This advice is obsolete and slightly harmful for filesystems from this
> millenium: any modern filesystem can handle unexpected crashes without
> requiring fsck -- and on the other hand, trying to write to the disk when
> the kernel is in a bad state risks introducing corruption.
>
> For ext2, any unsafe shutdown meant widespread breakage, but it's no longer
> a reasonable filesystem for any non-special use.
>
> Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Makes sense to me. Applied, thanks.
jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-06 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-03 16:08 [PATCH] Documentation: sysrq: don't recommend 'S' 'U' before 'B' Adam Borowski
2019-09-06 14:43 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2019-09-09 8:33 ` Pavel Machek
2019-09-09 18:38 ` Adam Borowski
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