From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [patch] ext2/3: document conditions when reliable operation is possible Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:05:58 +0200 Message-ID: <20090829100558.GH1634@ucw.cz> References: <20090824212518.GF29763@elf.ucw.cz> <200908262253.17886.rob@landley.net> <4A967175.5070700@redhat.com> <200908271551.43840.rob@landley.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Rob Landley , Ric Wheeler , Theodore Tso , Florian Weimer , Goswin von Brederlow , kernel list , Andrew Morton , mtk.manpages@gmail.com, rdunlap@xenotime.net, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, corbet@lwn.net To: david@lang.hm Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Fri 2009-08-28 07:49:38, david@lang.hm wrote: > On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Rob Landley wrote: > >> Pavel's response was to attempt to document this. Not that journaling is >> _bad_, but that it doesn't protect against this class of problem. > > I don't think anyone is disagreeing with the statement that journaling > doesn't protect against this class of problems, but Pavel's statements > didn't say that. he stated that ext3 is more dangerous than ext2. Well, if you use 'common' fsck policy, ext3 _is_ more dangerous. But I'm not pushing that to documentation, I'm trying to push info everyone agrees with. (check the patches). Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html