From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [patch] ext2/3: document conditions when reliable operation is possible Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:03:37 +0200 Message-ID: <20090830070336.GA1554@ucw.cz> References: <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 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: david@lang.hm Return-path: Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:49020 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751879AbZH3HDl (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:03:41 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed 2009-08-26 06:43:24, david@lang.hm wrote: > 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. That's not where fs documentation belongs :-(. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html