Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:54:47 +0200
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Artem B. Bityutskiy" <dedekind@yandex.ru>,
       Peter Menzebach <pm-mtd@mw-itcon.de>,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: data  loss on jffs2 filesystem on dataflash
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On Thu, 22 September 2005 13:34:30 +0200, J?rn Engel wrote:
> 
> Noone bothered defining it, but most everyone is happy about it being
> as it is.  Non-journalling filesystems would have severe corruption on
> unclean umounts.  lost+found would fill up much faster than people are
> used to, if 4-6 was common for hard disks.

Worse, actually.  Corruption will also happen for file data, which may
pass fsck just fine.  Your data is gone and noone told you about it.
;)

J?rn

-- 
A defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.
-- Sun Tzu
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