Mark Knecht wrote: > I seem to have file system problems on my external > 1394 hard drives. I do not know if this is due to a recent move > to 2.6.17-rt1, or bad maintenance on my part, or just bad luck.
Hopefully just bad luck (a failing drive, or a power hickup), but a kernel bug can't be ruled out. As for bad maintenance... with any data that you value, a regular disk inspection is needed: a maximum mount count of something like 15 or an interval of two weeks. > This evening, for no good reason since I don't know what I am > doing, I decided to run fsck and let it look around and fix > things if it wanted to. I wouldn't know how to do any better. Use tune2fs to set the checking interval to 1 week. Or better yet, to 1 day for now, to keep inspecting the disk everyday for a while. Use 'tunefs -l ...' to see the current values. > At the end of this I wondered if there is really any value to a > journaled file system? Did it protect me? I cannot tell. It won't protect you when the disk is going bad, nor when the kernel has bugs. It only protects you from losing data during a sudden power loss. Benno -- [email protected] mailing list
