On Sat 2009-08-29 15:22:06, Rob Landley wrote: > 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. Agreed. -- (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
