Re: Add a norecovery option to ext3/4?

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Mon Apr 09 2007 - 12:39:59 EST



On Apr 8 2007 22:24, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Samuel Thibault wrote:
>
> Can you elaborate? Under what circumstances is log replay going to harm data?
> Do you mean that the installer mounts partitions, looking for what OS is
> installed? How is that harmful?
>
> Hm, so the root cause there seems that the installer found 2 legs of a mirror
> and mounted them independently, recovering them independently... But why did
> that cause problems?

Because, for whatever unlikely reason there could possibly be, it may
have been repaired differently [depending on sunshine, daytime, rand(),
or so]?


Jan
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