On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 01:06:14PM -0600, Corey Edwards wrote: > > ext3 is also annoying in that it forces an fsck before it can be > resized. Isn't that the whole point of a journal?
Nope, they are different critters. A journal can catch file transaction integrity issues (e.g. if you write data to extend a file, a journal can make sure the length is updated in the inode). What a journal cannot catch is corruption in the metadata due to other things besides transaction integrity issues, such as flakey hardware causing a write to the wrong sector. A journal will not catch a dieing hard drive; fsck can. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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