This journal=data you talk about, is this an option to be used with the 'mount' command? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Wray" <steve.wray@paradise.net.nz> To: <linux-lvm@sistina.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 11:15 PM Subject: RE: [linux-lvm] EXT2 to EXT3 LVM volume on Redhat > > From: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com > > [mailto:linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com] On Behalf Of Aslak > > > > Hi again, and thanks for your quick reply! > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > > >From: "Ben Lutgens" <blutgens@sistina.com> > [big snip] > > >Don't presume that because it's EXT3 that fscks are no longer > > >necessary. Only thing the journal guarantees is that your metadata > > >won't become corrupt (i think journal=data mount option fixes this > but > > >will affect performance and not neccessarily badly). If your > filesystem > > >has been shutdown cleanly many many times you could still has some > > >loss. A fsck should take care of that. > > Yup journal=data is fantastic; I wouldn't be without it > on the volume that holds the home directories! > I tend to allocate filesystems based on functionality; > tmp gets ext2 cos its fast, > places like /var/spool get XFS cos it can be grown > in a pinch. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html > > _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
