On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Eric Fernandez wrote: > In case of a hard-reset, init messages indicate the computer was not > shut down cleanly, and a message appear : > "Press Y within 5 seconds to force the file system check" > > Actually this is very misleading : if you do it with ext3, it does NOT > use the journal and then you will experience system losses. Lots of > newbies have reported that problem. Now that would be nice to change > this message so that people leave the journalisation do the good work. > > Eric > Does it still do that? I talked about this with Thierry a while ago and he promised me the journal is updated before the filesystem check (which is the best thing, journal update doesn't necessarily fix all errors). In 9.1 the journal was certainly not updated before fs check.
If you can verify that it is still not fixed we need an update for this because it ruins many systems. d. >
