From: david@lang.hm Subject: Re: [patch] ext2/3: document conditions when reliable operation is possible Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:43:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20090824205209.GE29763@elf.ucw.cz> <4A930160.8060508@redhat.com> <20090824212518.GF29763@elf.ucw.cz> <20090824223915.GI17684@mit.edu> <20090824230036.GK29763@elf.ucw.cz> <4A932B18.1020209@redhat.com> <20090825093414.GB15563@elf.ucw.cz> <4A94ACDF.30405@redhat.com> <20090826111751.GC26595@elf.ucw.cz> <20090826131028.GB1370@ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Rik van Riel , Ric Wheeler , Theodore Tso , Florian Weimer , Goswin von Brederlow , Rob Landley , kernel list , Andrew Morton , mtk.manpages@gmail.com, rdunlap@xenotime.net, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, corbet@lwn.net, jack@suse.cz To: Pavel Machek Return-path: Received: from mail.lang.hm ([64.81.33.126]:42169 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757376AbZHZNob (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:44:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090826131028.GB1370@ucw.cz> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Pavel Machek wrote: >>>> The metadata is just a way to get to my data, while the data >>>> is actually important. >>> >>> Personally, I care about metadata consistency, and ext3 documentation >>> suggests that journal protects its integrity. Except that it does not >>> on broken storage devices, and you still need to run fsck there. >> >> as the ext3 authors have stated many times over the years, you still need >> to run fsck periodicly anyway. > > Where is that documented? linux-kernel mailing list archives. David Lang > I very much agree with that, but when suse10 > switched periodic fsck off, I could not find any docs to show that it > is bad idea. > Pavel >