> 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 -- RFC 1925: (11) Every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and a different presentation, regardless of whether it works. _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss