Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755321AbYAHSte (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 13:49:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752568AbYAHSt0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 13:49:26 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:50293 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751186AbYAHSt0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 13:49:26 -0500 Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:47:17 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: Tuomo Valkonen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: The ext3 way of journalling Message-ID: <20080108184717.0abcb312@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <20080108164847.GA16462@skl-net.de> <20080108182904.GB16462@skl-net.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.12.3; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 763 Lines: 16 > be a bit longer), but it gets confused and thinks it's been years since > last check, when it hasn't. I have my doubts that Theodore Tso's reply > is the problem here, because I didn't use to have this problem; it > appeared relatively recently. But maybe old versions of e2fsck were This is a bug in your system or distribution. We used to see it years ago when the disk caches didn't get flushed before power off. The last write would vanish and on a shutdown was almost always the superblock time update. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/