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> These are a few examples. A second thing to keep in mind is that the ext2fs
> is a rather fast filesystem by unix standards (it beats the hell out of the
> EAFS HTFS DTFS etc filesystems from SCO, but who's comparing SCO to linux
> anyway :) so if you have hardware corruption problems that don't show up
> except under heavy load, ext2fs is a good filesystem to bring those out :)
>
As a side note (just I think this may help), ext2 programs have a nice
utility to set up the ext2 behavior: the tune2fs.
It have saved my ass more that one time, in fact I don't care of ext2
corruption because my filesystem is set up to remount read-only on
filesystem inconsistency (error) !
tune2fs -i 4d -c 10 -e remount-ro /dev/hd??
is a good way to protect your filesys: force an fsck every 4 days or 10
mounts and on filesystem error, remount it read-only. When you find you
can no more write on your filesys, you know your ass have been saved by
this setting :)
Of course if there is a bug, it should be tracked down and fixed, but for
those who just want to protect their filesys from corruption, this may
help.
Ciao,
Riccardo.