> The journal will prevent inconsistencies in the filesystem in case of a crash.
> It cannot prevent corruption of the on-disk data, inconsistencies caused by
> cache
> enabled on the disks or in a RAID controller, software bugs, memory
> corruption, bad cables, etc.
The OSS is part of a 'Snowbird' installation, so the RAID/Disk part should be
fine.
I hope that we 'just' hit a small software bug :-/
> That is why it is still a good idea for users to run e2fsck periodically on a
> filesystem.
Ok, we will keep this in mind (e2fsck was surprisingly fast anyway!)
Regards,
Adrian
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