Hi! >>> If your concern is that with Linux MD, you could potentially lose an >>> entire stripe in RAID 5 mode, then you should say that explicitly; but >>> again, this isn't a filesystem specific cliam; it's true for all >>> filesystems. I don't know of any file system that can survive having >>> a RAID stripe-shaped-hole blown into the middle of it due to a power >>> failure. >>> >> >> Again, ext2 handles that in a way user expects it. >> >> At least I was teached "ext2 needs fsck after powerfail; ext3 can >> handle powerfails just ok". > > So, would you be happy if ext3 fsck was always run on reboot (at least > for flash devices)? For flash devices, MD Raid 5 and anything else that needs it; yes that would make me happy ;-). Pavel -- (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