On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Sandeep K Sinha
<sandeepksinha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> When you say a file system as consistent, It means that you would be
> able to mount the filesystem. The superblock would be in the
> consistent state.
> The point is that even if you loose the data for a couple of files,
> still your file system will be up and you would be able to access the
> data for other files.
> If you loose the consistency of a file system( e.g superblock) then
> would loose everything.
>
> There are other tools that can be used to recover the data of a file
> or revert back the file to a consistent state but if you loose
> superblock then you land NOWHERE.
Perfectly right but that may be a one off scenario. Usually modern
filesystems would keep multiple copies of superblock, so even if your
superblock is damaged you can still recover the fs to a sane state by
forcing fsck to use an alternative superblock.
Hope this helps somehow.
Thanks,
~Pradeep
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>> Thanks
>> Shyam.
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> Sandeep.
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