On Sat 2009-01-03 22:17:11, Martin MOKREJŠ wrote: > Can one avoid replay of the journal then if it would be unclean? > Just curious. Well, mounting unclean filesystem is dangerous but depending on circumstances, it may be better than writing to the filesystems. (You may not be able to read some data and may provoke kernel bugs, but at least you don't damage what is on disk. If you are collecting evidence -- not writing is very important. If you suspect something is very wrong with the drive, not writing is good idea). Pavel > > Pavel Machek wrote: > > Using ext3 is only safe if storage subsystem meets certain > > criteria. Document those. > > > > Errors=remount-ro is documented as default, but superblock setting > > overrides that and mkfs defaults to errors=continue... so the default > > is errors=continue in practice. > > > > readonly mount does actually write to the media in some cases. Document that. > > > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx> > > > > diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
