From: "Jeff Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.org>
To: "Alexander Viro" <viro@math.psu.edu>,
"Robert Boermans" <boermans@tfn.net>
Cc: "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.5.0 breakage even with fix?
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 16:14:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <007901c1753d$b541ae80$f5976dcf@nwfs> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0111241749320.6117-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
Al,
I am not seeing any more breakage with this fix with NWFS.
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexander Viro" <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: "Robert Boermans" <boermans@tfn.net>
Cc: "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: 2.5.0 breakage even with fix?
>
>
> On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Robert Boermans wrote:
>
> > If the filesystem is marked clean, does that mean that people with
> > journalling file systems are fscked? (since there might be no journal
entry
> > of what hasn't finished.)
>
> Well, if filesystem doesn't have a recovery tool that would allow forced
> check mode - you _are_ screwed. As you will be again and again if you get
> memory corruption/driver bugs/fs bugs/RAID bugs/physical disk
problems/etc.
>
> Again, if filesystem trusts clear bit to the extent that you have no way
> to convince it that checks _are_ needed - it's unfit for any serious use.
> I suspect that by now everybody had learnt that much - that used to be
> a permanent source of problems with early journalling filesystems and
AFAIK
> all of them had been fixed since then.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-24 23:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-24 0:54 2.5.0 breakage even with fix? Petr Vandrovec
2001-11-24 0:13 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-24 23:05 ` Robert Boermans
2001-11-24 23:03 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-24 23:14 ` Jeff Merkey [this message]
2001-11-24 0:23 ` Andreas Dilger
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2001-11-24 1:05 Petr Vandrovec
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