>>> The metadata is just a way to get to my data, while the data >>> is actually important. >> >> Personally, I care about metadata consistency, and ext3 documentation >> suggests that journal protects its integrity. Except that it does not >> on broken storage devices, and you still need to run fsck there. > > as the ext3 authors have stated many times over the years, you still need > to run fsck periodicly anyway. Where is that documented? I very much agree with that, but when suse10 switched periodic fsck off, I could not find any docs to show that it is bad idea. 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
