Re: document ext3 requirements

Theodore Tso
2009-01-06T15:23:48Z

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 11:08:10AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Jan 2009, Martin MOKREJŠ wrote:
> > Hmm, so if my dual-boot machine does not shutdown correctly and I boot
> > accidentally in M$ Win where I use ext2 IFS driver and modify some
> > stuff on the ext3 drive, after a while reboot to linux and the journal
> > get re-played ... Mmm ...
>
> If the ext2 IFS driver mounts an ext3 file system that needs journal
> replay, the IFS driver is broken (unless it can replay the journal, of
> course - I stopped using that driver long ago, being unhappy with it).

Indeed; that's why there is a INCOMPAT NEEDS_RECOVERY feature flag to
prevent compliant ext2 implementations from mounting an ext3
filesystem that needs recovery. We've thought about most of these
issues, almost a decade ago...

- Ted