I think this is an ext3 probleme ... I don't understand why diskdrake
default fs type is not xfs.

Le mer 17/09/2003 à 13:49, Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
> "[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.
> 
> i often see small mismatch in free/used iodes/blocks after journal
> replaying.
> 
> these small glitches can cause bigger damage later if not fixed.
> 
> > (which doesn't use the journal to restore, but just fixes incorrect
> > stuff, which usually means: deletes incorrect stuff).
> 
> current fsck for ext3 does replay journal *before* checking & fixing
> it.
> 
> i cannot speak for other journalised fses though.
> i've only heavily test ext3 but neither jfs nor xfs nor reiserfs.
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