On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 14:53, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
at any rate - sometimes journal'd filesystems are damaged and the only sure way to know is to fsck it - which the previous message would do.
Exactomundo. Journaling filesystems are not the savior of disk corruption, only the reducer of boot times -- unless you have something like full data journaling with a NVRAM.
I've had a couple of boxes with Reiserfs crash recently from UPS problems and multiple times they have refused to mount without a fsck with --rebuild-tree, which takes a full day or so. I thought the point of journaling was to avoid needing that... Is there any reason to expect better from xfs? These are running backuppc and need better-than-ext3 performance at creating/removing files.