On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > "[danny]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It sounds as you actually want fsck to check journalled drives, > > yes, i do want checking journalized fses by default if the user does > not choose anything. > > > while, in my experience, the journal update at mount is much safer > > than fsck > > in my experience, not checking journalized fses can results in slowly > accumulating small corruption in metadata until the day you got real > problems because of this. > > journalised fses provides quite more stable fs regarding metadata > lost and big corruptions but that does not means they protect you > against all fs corruptions. > true, but I saw at least 3 users on 9.1 with a broken distro because somehow fsck on ext3 deletes critical libraries.
> current fsck for ext3 does replay journal *before* checking & fixing > it. If the journal is currently replayed before fsck all is ok with me. But this was certainly not the case a few months ago. If you sure that this is happening (also on root fs), bug can be closed (at least for ext3). d.
