On Mar 06, 2007 09:27 -0500, Daniel Drake wrote:
OK. Given that write caching may be required for performance reasons or
there might be other possible reasons which would result in
preen-unrepairable fs corruption on power loss, my question is now: Is
it a really bad idea to run e2fsck -y on
Hi,
I'm working with ext3 partitions in a product environment, where
numerous embedded Linux systems will be shipped to various locations.
In testing we occasionally find that system boot is halted by e2fsck
with an UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY error message. This is while running
in preen mode.
Hi Ted,
Thanks for the quick response.
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 11:48 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
Actually, power loss by itself should *not* cause any corruption when
you are using ext3; that's the whole point of the journal. If there
is, you probably have some other problem that you might do
