On Saturday 29 August 2009 05:05:58 Pavel Machek wrote: > On Fri 2009-08-28 07:49:38, david@xxxxxxx wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Rob Landley wrote: > >> Pavel's response was to attempt to document this. Not that journaling > >> is _bad_, but that it doesn't protect against this class of problem. > > > > I don't think anyone is disagreeing with the statement that journaling > > doesn't protect against this class of problems, but Pavel's statements > > didn't say that. he stated that ext3 is more dangerous than ext2. > > Well, if you use 'common' fsck policy, ext3 _is_ more dangerous. The filesystem itself isn't more dangerous, but it may provide a false sense of security when used on storage devices it wasn't designed for. Rob -- Latency is more important than throughput. It's that simple. - Linus Torvalds -- 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
