On Wed 2009-08-26 06:43:24, david@xxxxxxx wrote: > On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Pavel Machek wrote: > >>>>> 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? > > linux-kernel mailing list archives. That's not where fs documentation belongs :-(. 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
