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From: "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com>
To: "Pavel Machek" <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Matthew Frost <artusemrys@sbcglobal.net>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
	ext2-devel <ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:31:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <986ed62e0606140731u4c42a2adv42c072bf270e4874@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060612220605.GD4950@ucw.cz>

On 6/12/06, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> Please don't. AFAIK, ext2/3 is only filesystem with working fsck
> (because that fsck was actually needed in the old days). Starting from
> xfs/jfs/reiser/??? means we no longer have working fsck...

Er, what do you mean by "working fsck"?

Unless I'm misunderstanding something, JFS also has a working fsck
(which has actually performed successful repair of real-world
filesystem corruption for me, although I haven't used it as much as
e2fsck or xfs_repair).

XFS's fsck is a no-op, but I think it could be implemented as a
wrapper around xfs_repair (and maybe xfs_check). xfs_repair has
successfully fixed corrupted filesystems for me, just as JFS's fsck
has.

(As for ReiserFS... well, in the past it's probably been too easy to
shoot yourself in the foot with reiserfsck and make the filesystem
worse-to-nonexistent instead of better. I haven't needed to use
reiserfsck on a corrupt FS lately so I don't know how it compares
these days.)
-- 
-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-14 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 296+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-09  1:20 [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 Mingming Cao
2006-06-09  2:40 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-06-09  8:20   ` Andreas Dilger
2006-06-09 18:35     ` [Ext2-devel] " Stephen C. Tweedie
2006-06-09 19:20       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 19:28         ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 19:32           ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 19:41             ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 15:23   ` Mingming Cao
2006-06-09  2:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09  8:35   ` Andreas Dilger
2006-06-09 15:08     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 15:25       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 15:40         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-09 15:47           ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 15:55             ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 15:56               ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 16:07                 ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 16:09                   ` [Ext2-devel] " Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 18:04                   ` Matthew Frost
2006-06-09 18:10                     ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 18:14                     ` [Ext2-devel] " Andreas Dilger
2006-06-09 18:51                       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 19:39                         ` Gerrit Huizenga
2006-06-09 19:45                           ` [Ext2-devel] " Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 20:38                             ` Gerrit Huizenga
2006-06-10 10:03                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-06-09 19:49                         ` [Ext2-devel] " Theodore Tso
2006-06-09 20:04                           ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 20:57                             ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2006-06-09 21:49                               ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 21:55                                 ` [Ext2-devel] " Stephen C. Tweedie
2006-06-09 23:44                                   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-10  0:45                                     ` [Ext2-devel] " Andreas Dilger
2006-06-10  0:47                                     ` Theodore Tso
2006-06-10  1:09                                       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-10  1:30                                         ` [Ext2-devel] " Andreas Dilger
2006-06-10  1:43                                           ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-10  2:03                                             ` Theodore Tso
2006-06-10  2:11                                               ` [Ext2-devel] " Jeff Garzik
2006-06-10  2:54                                                 ` Theodore Tso
2006-06-10  3:11                                                   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-10 12:15                                                     ` Theodore Tso
2006-06-10 14:31                                                       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-10  2:58                                               ` [Ext2-devel] " Jeff Garzik
2006-06-10  2:26                                             ` Andreas Dilger
2006-06-10  2:31                                               ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-10  4:22                                                 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-06-09 22:37                             ` [Ext2-devel] " Andreas Dilger
2006-06-11 16:02                         ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-11 16:30                           ` Nikita Danilov
2006-06-11 16:55                             ` [Ext2-devel] " Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-12  6:35                           ` Andreas Dilger
2006-06-12 22:06                         ` [Ext2-devel] " Pavel Machek
2006-06-14 14:31                           ` Barry K. Nathan [this message]
2006-06-14 21:34                             ` Pavel Machek
2006-06-15  0:28                               ` Barry K. Nathan
2006-06-15  4:55                                 ` Theodore Tso
2006-06-15  7:43                                   ` Barry K. Nathan
2006-06-15  9:15                                 ` Pavel Machek
2006-06-15  9:40                                   ` Barry K. Nathan
2006-06-15  9:50                                     ` [Ext2-devel] " Pavel Machek
2006-06-09 20:52                 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2006-06-09 21:47                   ` [Ext2-devel] " Jeff Garzik
2006-06-10  0:41                     ` James Morris
2006-06-09 16:01             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-09 20:38             ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2006-06-09 15:57           ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 16:10           ` [Ext2-devel] " Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 16:10             ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 16:24               ` Erik Mouw
2006-06-09 16:28                 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 16:24               ` [Ext2-devel] " Chase Venters
2006-06-09 16:25               ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 16:28                 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 16:50                   ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 16:53                     ` [Ext2-devel] " Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 17:01                       ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 17:10                         ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 16:25             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-09 16:48               ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 16:54                 ` KELEMEN Peter
2006-06-09 16:55                 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 17:12                   ` [Ext2-devel] " Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 17:12                     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 19:57                   ` Theodore Tso
2006-06-09 20:09                     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 20:14                       ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 20:28                         ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-19  7:48                         ` [Ext2-devel] " Helge Hafting
2006-06-09 20:38                     ` Joel Becker
2006-06-09 20:50                       ` Dave Jones
2006-06-09 21:09                         ` Joel Becker
2006-06-09 21:51                           ` Mike Snitzer
2006-06-09 21:32                         ` [Ext2-devel] " Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 22:56                           ` Andreas Dilger
2006-06-09 23:06                             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-09 23:09                             ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 23:37                               ` [Ext2-devel] " Andreas Dilger
2006-06-09 23:54                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-09 21:03                       ` Theodore Tso
2006-06-09 21:24                         ` Joel Becker
2006-06-09 21:36                           ` [Ext2-devel] " Chase Venters
2006-06-09 21:51                           ` Theodore Tso
2006-06-09 22:07                             ` Joel Becker
2006-06-09 22:31                               ` [Ext2-devel] " Theodore Tso
2006-06-09 22:47                                 ` Joel Becker
2006-06-09 23:54                                   ` [Ext2-devel] " Theodore Tso
2006-06-09 23:48                         ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-12  8:58                     ` Jes Sorensen
2006-06-10  0:07                   ` Olivier Galibert
2006-06-10  0:13                     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 16:54               ` [Ext2-devel] " Linus Torvalds
2006-06-09 17:04                 ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 17:30                   ` [Ext2-devel] " Linus Torvalds
2006-06-09 17:41                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-06-09 17:50                       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 18:00                         ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 18:04                       ` [Ext2-devel] " Linus Torvalds
2006-06-09 18:17                       ` Michael Poole
2006-06-09 17:44                 ` Theodore Tso
2006-06-09 17:58                   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 18:10                 ` [Ext2-devel] " Andreas Dilger
2006-06-09 18:22                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-09 18:30                     ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 18:38                       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-09 18:50                         ` [Ext2-devel] " Chase Venters
2006-06-09 19:00                           ` Chase Venters
2006-06-10 13:33                             ` Adrian Bunk
2006-06-09 19:01                           ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-10 19:27                             ` Kyle Moffett
2006-06-10 19:44                               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-10 20:02                                 ` [Ext2-devel] " Linus Torvalds
2006-06-10 21:26                                   ` Theodore Tso
2006-06-10 21:31                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-10 22:12                                     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-10 22:21                                     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-11  4:39                                       ` Stable/devel policy - was Re: [Ext2-devel] " Neil Brown
2006-06-11  5:19                                         ` Stable/devel policy - was " Linus Torvalds
2006-06-11  7:32                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2006-06-13  0:28                                         ` Stable/devel policy - was Re: [Ext2-devel] " Mingming Cao
2006-06-09 19:21                           ` Alan Cox
2006-06-09 19:13                             ` [Ext2-devel] " Chase Venters
2006-06-09 19:24                             ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 19:25                               ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 19:35                                 ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 19:35                                   ` [Ext2-devel] " Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 20:44                                   ` Joel Becker
2006-06-09 20:49                                     ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 21:11                                       ` Joel Becker
2006-06-09 21:20                                         ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 21:29                                           ` Joel Becker
2006-06-09 21:33                                             ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 21:43                                             ` Joel Becker
2006-06-11 20:14                                   ` [Ext2-devel] " grundig
2006-06-14 16:45                                     ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 19:22                         ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 19:22                           ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 20:16                         ` Andreas Dilger
2006-06-09 20:31                           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-09 20:31                           ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 18:43                       ` [Ext2-devel] " Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 18:50                       ` Diego Calleja
2006-06-09 19:08                         ` Diego Calleja
2006-06-09 18:40                   ` [Ext2-devel] " Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 18:59                     ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-09 19:16                       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 20:27                         ` [Ext2-devel] " Chase Venters
2006-06-09 20:44                       ` Alan Cox
2006-06-11 15:52                         ` [Ext2-devel] " Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-09 18:41                   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 17:12               ` Jeff Anderson-Lee
2006-06-09 18:02               ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-10 19:10         ` Kyle Moffett
2006-06-10 19:27           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-09 15:28       ` [Ext2-devel] " Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 15:31         ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-06-10  3:26           ` Continuation Inodes Explained! (was Re: [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3) Valerie Henson
2006-06-10  5:25             ` Andreas Dilger
2006-06-10  5:41               ` Valerie Henson
2006-06-10  6:22                 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-06-10 14:22             ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 15:44         ` [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 15:53           ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 15:52             ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 16:02               ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 16:04                 ` [Ext2-devel] " Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 18:29           ` Andreas Dilger
2006-06-09 15:53         ` [Ext2-devel] " Gerrit Huizenga
2006-06-09 16:03           ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 16:09           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-09 17:58             ` Gerrit Huizenga
2006-06-09 18:25               ` [Ext2-devel] " Chase Venters
2006-06-10 13:46               ` Adrian Bunk
2006-06-10 14:42                 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-06-10 15:03                   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-11  6:00                     ` Ingo Molnar
2006-06-10 16:00                   ` Adrian Bunk
2006-06-10 16:05                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-06-10 23:05                   ` Mike Galbraith
2006-06-13 13:34               ` [Ext2-devel] " Helge Hafting
2006-06-09 20:32       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2006-06-09 20:46         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-09 20:56           ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-20  6:15           ` [Ext2-devel] " Qi Yong
2006-06-20  8:26             ` Laurent Vivier
2006-06-20  8:30               ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-20  9:21                 ` Laurent Vivier
2006-06-20  9:48                   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-20 10:40                     ` Laurent Vivier
2006-06-09 17:14   ` Alan Cox
2006-06-09  9:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-06-09 10:07   ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-09 15:40     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 15:42       ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-06-09 15:51         ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 17:29         ` Alan Cox
2006-06-09 16:56       ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-09 17:07         ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 17:35           ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-09 17:48             ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 17:59               ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 18:27                 ` [Ext2-devel] " Mike Snitzer
2006-06-09 18:54                   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 19:22                     ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 19:23                       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 22:49                       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-06-09 23:34                         ` [Ext2-devel] " Andreas Dilger
2006-06-10 13:49                   ` Adrian Bunk
2006-06-10 13:51                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-06-10 14:54                       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-10 18:01                         ` [Ext2-devel] " Andreas Dilger
2006-06-09 21:42             ` Sonny Rao
2006-06-09 22:15               ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-09 23:11                 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-06-09 23:15                   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-10  3:37                   ` Valerie Henson
2006-06-10  3:49                 ` Nathan Scott
2006-06-09 18:23       ` Michael Poole
2006-06-09 18:55         ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 19:42           ` [Ext2-devel] " Gerrit Huizenga
2006-06-09 20:00             ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 20:08               ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 20:10                 ` [Ext2-devel] " Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 20:35               ` Theodore Tso
2006-06-09 21:41                 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 21:45                   ` [Ext2-devel] " Michael Poole
2006-06-09 21:53                     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 22:04                       ` Theodore Tso
2006-06-10  0:49         ` Sven-Haegar Koch
2006-06-10  1:06           ` Theodore Tso
2006-06-10 14:07             ` Olivier Galibert
2006-06-10 19:52               ` Theodore Tso
2006-06-09 10:49   ` Andreas Dilger
2006-06-09 11:26   ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 14:23     ` [Ext2-devel] " Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 14:33       ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 14:34       ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 14:35         ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 14:57           ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 15:17             ` [Ext2-devel] " Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 16:21               ` Mike Snitzer
2006-06-09 16:27                 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 16:48                   ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 16:51                     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 16:33                 ` Alex Tomas
2006-06-09 16:37                   ` [Ext2-devel] " Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 22:52                   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-06-09 23:21                     ` Andreas Dilger
2006-06-10  1:21                       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-06-10  2:09                         ` [Ext2-devel] " Andreas Dilger
2006-06-10  2:45                           ` Nicholas Miell
2006-06-10  4:29                             ` Andreas Dilger
2006-06-09 16:56               ` Andreas Dilger
2006-06-09 17:32                 ` [Ext2-devel] " Greg KH
2006-06-09 18:48                 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-30  0:16 ` [RFC][Update 0/16]extents and 48bit ext3/4 patches Mingming Cao
2006-06-30  0:16 ` [RFC][Update][Patch 1/16]core extent map support Mingming Cao
2006-06-30  0:17 ` [RFC][Update][Patch 2/16]sector_t type format string Mingming Cao
2006-06-30  0:17 ` [RFC][Update][Patch 3/16]convert ext3_fsblk_t to sector_t to support >32 bit block in kernel Mingming Cao
2006-06-30  0:17 ` [RFC][Update][Patch 4/16]support 48 bit blk number in extents Mingming Cao
2006-06-30  0:17 ` [RFC][Update][Patch 5/16]block type convert " Mingming Cao
2006-06-30  0:17 ` [RFC][Update][Patch 6/16]handing unitialized extents Mingming Cao
2006-06-30  0:17 ` [RFC][Update][Patch 7/16]Core 64 bit JBD changes Mingming Cao
2006-06-30  0:18 ` [RFC][Update][Patch 8/16]Avoid potential block overflow when writing journal metadata tags Mingming Cao
2006-06-30  0:18 ` [RFC][Update][Patch 9/16]Fix reading of 32-bit tag descriptors Mingming Cao
2006-06-30  0:18 ` [RFC][Update][Patch 10/16]Cleanup journal_tag_bytes() Mingming Cao
2006-06-30  0:18 ` [RFC][Update][Patch 11/16]JBD layer in-kernel block variables type fixes Mingming Cao
2006-06-30  0:18 ` [RFC][Update][Patch 12/16]Fix undefined ">> 32" in revoke code Mingming Cao
2006-06-30  3:15   ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-06-30  0:18 ` [RFC][Update][Patch 13/16] 48 bit on-disk i_file_acl support Mingming Cao
2006-06-30  0:19 ` [RFC][Update][Patch 14/16] 48bit super block (metadata) changes Mingming Cao
2006-06-30  0:19 ` [RFC][Update][Patch 15/16] compile warning fix and change 64bit to INCOMPAT feature Mingming Cao
2006-06-30  0:19 ` [RFC][Update][Patch 16/16]Update ext3 superblock definition Mingming Cao
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-06-11  8:22 [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 linux
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2006-06-14 16:45                 ` [Ext2-devel] " Bodo Eggert
2006-06-14 17:28                   ` Andreas Dilger

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