Hi! > >Distribution installers usually try to probe OSes for > >building a suited > >grub menu. Unfortunately, mounting an ext3 partition, > >even in read-only > >mode, does perform some operations on the filesystem > >(log recovery). > >This is not a good idea since it may silently garbage > >data. > > Can you elaborate? Under what circumstances is log > replay going to harm data? Do you mean that the Suspend machine, boot from CD trying to read from HDD, resume. People lost data because of this trap. Imagine _broken_ disk, with hw dying. Would you rather replay log, possibly corrupting it even more, or read few files you do care about? 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-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
