Hi, On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 12:27:23PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: > >> So if the "list of block numbers" gets corrupted, the recovery > >> data will be sprayed all over the disk :( > > > > No, we should be safe from that. The recovery is done on the > > partition's own minor device, not on the whole-disk device, and the > > block layer does bounds checking on that. > > Well, that's kind of nice to know. Is it possible for corruption of that > list to cause blocks to be written to the wrong place within the single > partition? Yes. There are all sorts of fs corruptions which can cause that, though: it's not limited to journal corruption. Cheers, Stephen
