yes, corruption can happen silently in the background! regular fsck can
catch these while they are correctable or before they cause any major loss.
ext3 and xfs have no mechanism for online fault correction to detect silent
corruption. ZFS has this mechanism but I don't believe many people are
using ZFS and backuppc together at this point.
fsck = good
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 04/24 03:10 , David Rees wrote:
> > Why would you ever need to fsck a ext3 volume?
>
> Corruption happens.
> Especially if you have hardware that flakes out at all; which it might.
>
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