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.
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Les Mikesell
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