Hi, On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 03:48:40AM +0300, Jani Averbach wrote: > On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > If the error is data corruption, then either parts of the journal will > > be silently ignored (corrupting active metadata on the fs), or you'll > > end up copying garbage to active filesystem metadata. > And the metadata will be corrupted (obviously). What then? Is it > recoverable by e2fsck? It depends. > I guess that the answer would be "it depends" Yes. :) *All* bets are off if you get bit flip errors. Things become, by definition, unpredictable. > > Bitmaps, inode tables, directories. > What are the changes that these errors are recoverable? Bitmaps are always recoverable by e2fsck. Pretty much everything else will damage the fs to some extent. Cheers, Stephen
