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From: "Jahn Veach" <V64@Galaxy42.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.15 + fs corruption.
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 17:50:03 -0600
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> Breakage happens when you umount filesystem (_any_ local filesystem, be
> it ext2, reiserfs, whatever) that still has dirty inodes.

What kind of breakage are we looking at here? I had a system that ran 2.4.15
and got shut down without a sync. What kind of corruption will occur and is
it something a simple fsck will fix?

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