Re: [POT] Which journalised filesystem ?

Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-10-03T17:37:13Z

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 02:54:17PM +0200, Dave Jones wrote:

> > Personally I like ext3 a lot. I've been using it for almost a
> > year now and it has never given me trouble.
>
> 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.

Which laptop? I've seen several reports of disk corruption with
recent kernels on certain laptops.

Cheers,
Stephen