Re: Add a norecovery option to ext3/4?

Pavel Machek
2007-04-12T11:18:53Z

Hi!

> >Distribution installers usually try to probe OSes for
> >building a suited
> >grub menu. Unfortunately, mounting an ext3 partition,
> >even in read-only
> >mode, does perform some operations on the filesystem
> >(log recovery).
> >This is not a good idea since it may silently garbage
> >data.
>
> Can you elaborate? Under what circumstances is log
> replay going to harm data? Do you mean that the

Suspend machine, boot from CD trying to read from HDD, resume. People
lost data because of this trap.

Imagine _broken_ disk, with hw dying. Would you rather replay log,
possibly corrupting it even more, or read few files you do care about?

Pavel
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