interesting note on fsck and journalled filesystems

christoph at linuxsoup.com christoph at linuxsoup.com
Sun Jan 11 23:13:26 EST 2004


This point can not be stressed enough.  Journaling only speeds the recovery
of "expected" or "known" inconsistencies.  It's not a fool proof filesystem.
It's too cold outside.... this lecture it over :-)

> Journalling really has nothing to do with the bulletproofing of a file
> system per se. The reason to use a journalling file system has more to
> do with crash recovery time than with integrity. IMHO, most Unix/Linux
> file systems run without any significant problems for years
> 




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