On 24 Oct 2012, nix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx uttered the following: > So, the net effect of this is that normally I get no journal recovery on > anything at all -- but sometimes, if umounting takes longer than a few > seconds, I reboot with not everything unmounted, and journal recovery > kicks in on reboot. My post-test fscks this time suggest that only when > journal recovery kicks in after rebooting out of 2.6.3 do I see > corruption. So this is indeed an unclean shutdown journal-replay > situation: it just happens that I routinely have one or two fses > uncleanly unmounted when all the rest are cleanly unmounted. This > perhaps explains the scattershot nature of the corruption I see, and why > most of my ext4 filesystems get off scot-free. Note that two umounts are not required: fsck found corruption on /var after a single boot+shutdown round in 3.6.3+this patch. (It did do a journal replay on /var first.) -- NULL && (void) -- 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
