From: Billy Harvey <Billy.Harvey@thrillseeker.net>
To: lk <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [POT] Which journalised filesystem ?
Date: 03 Oct 2001 09:00:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1002114032.4911.3.camel@rhino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0110031448460.16788-100000@Appserv.suse.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0110031448460.16788-100000@Appserv.suse.de>
On Wed, 2001-10-03 at 08:54, Dave Jones wrote:
> I've similar experiences with ext3, except for one bad instance
> recently when I put it on my laptop. Lots of asserts were triggered,
> and on reboot it couldn't find the journal, the superblock,
> or the backup superblocks. I spent a few hours trying to get data
> back, and eventually gave up and reformatted as ext2.
>
> Alan mentioned this was something to do with the IBM hard disk
> having strange write-cache properties that confuse ext3.
> I'm not sure if this has been fixed or not yet, but its enough
> to make me think twice about trying it on the vaio for a while.
>
> regards,
>
> Dave.
I've been using ext3 on my ThinkPad (A20P) for about a month now with
nary the slightest problem. I've even smoke tested it by shutting it
down in the middle of disk writes and it worked fine.
Billy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-03 13:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-03 12:00 [POT] Which journalised filesystem uses Linus Torvalds ? sebastien.cabaniols
2001-10-03 12:39 ` [POT] Which journalised filesystem ? Rik van Riel
2001-10-03 12:54 ` Dave Jones
2001-10-03 13:00 ` Billy Harvey [this message]
2001-10-04 22:14 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-04 22:14 ` Dave Jones
2001-10-04 22:24 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-03 13:01 ` Ragnar Kjørstad
2001-10-03 13:24 ` Dave Jones
2001-10-03 17:51 ` Andrew Morton
2001-10-03 15:34 ` André Dahlqvist
2001-10-04 21:25 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-04 21:53 ` Alessandro Suardi
2001-10-03 17:03 ` Matthias Andree
2001-10-03 17:40 ` Sujal Shah
2001-10-03 19:13 ` Erik Mouw
2001-10-03 20:52 ` Mark Hahn
2001-10-04 22:49 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2001-10-04 23:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-04 23:55 ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-05 14:57 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-05 15:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-05 20:25 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2001-10-05 23:41 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2001-10-06 8:32 ` Tonu Samuel
2001-10-06 9:16 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2001-10-06 16:42 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2001-10-05 22:05 ` Pavel Machek
2001-10-07 0:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-10 17:29 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-10-05 1:05 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-10-03 17:41 ` Xavier Bestel
2001-10-03 17:53 ` Matthias Andree
2001-10-03 17:36 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-10-03 17:41 ` Dave Jones
2001-10-04 21:09 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-05 10:27 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-10-03 14:33 ` [POT] Which journalised filesystem uses Linus Torvalds ? Dave Cinege
2001-10-03 14:48 ` Sean Hunter
2001-10-03 16:54 ` Fabbione
2001-10-03 17:52 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2001-10-03 18:01 ` Luigi Genoni
2001-10-04 5:42 ` Andrew Ip
2001-10-04 7:32 ` Constantin Loizides
2001-10-04 16:30 ` Nathan Straz
2001-10-04 17:21 ` Hristo Grigorov
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