On 07/01/2011 22:59, Tony Luck wrote: > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Marco Stornelli > <marco.stornelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> constraint). About the errors: pramfs does not maintain file data in the >> page caches for normal file I/O, so no writeback, the read/write >> operation are done with direct io and they are always sync. The data are >> write protected in hw when the arch provide this facility (x86 does). >> Inode contains a checksum and when there are problems they are marked as >> bad. Superblock contains checksum and there is a redundant superblock. > > But you can still get pramfs inconsistencies if the system crashes at an > inopportune moment. E.g. when making files you write the new inode to > pramfs, and then you insert the entry into the directory. A crash between > these two operations leaves an allocated inode that doesn't appear in > any directory. Without a fsck option, it will be hard to see that you have > this problem, and your only recovery option is to wipe *all* files by making > a new filesystem. Is it a problem if you lost some logs? However do you expect that fsck in this case will drop the inode? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
