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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Cc: Hiroyuki Machida <machida@sm.sony.co.jp>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFD] FAT robustness
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 07:22:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050721052231.GA7835@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42DB9911.9010106@grupopie.com>

Hi!

> >[...]
> > Q3 : I'm not sure JBD can be used for FAT improvements.       Do you 
> >have any comments ?
> 
> I might not be the best person to answer this, but this just seems so 
> obvious:
> 
> If you plan to let a recently hot-unplugged device to be used in another 
> OS that doesn't understand your journaling extensions, your disk will be 
> corrupted.

It will only be corrupted if you unplug it without unmounting, and it
will only be corrupted as much as non-journalling disk is. Plus, you
might intentionaly damage superblock signature on mount (an fix it on
clean umount) so that you force user to plug it back to journalling
system....
								Pavel

-- 
teflon -- maybe it is a trademark, but it should not be.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-07-21  5:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-17  6:41 [RFD] FAT robustness Hiroyuki Machida
2005-07-18 11:57 ` Paulo Marques
2005-07-20 18:03   ` Hiroyuki Machida
2005-07-21 14:56     ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2005-07-21  5:22   ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-07-19 14:54 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2005-07-21 12:15   ` Hiroyuki Machida
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-07-19 16:58 Etienne Lorrain
2005-07-19 21:53 ` Horst von Brand
2005-07-20  7:35 ` Denis Vlasenko

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