Re: [patch] ext2/3: document conditions when reliable operation ispossible

[david]

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > > > The metadata is just a way to get to my data, while the data
> > > > is actually important.
> > >
> > > Personally, I care about metadata consistency, and ext3 documentation
> > > suggests that journal protects its integrity. Except that it does not
> > > on broken storage devices, and you still need to run fsck there.
> >
> > as the ext3 authors have stated many times over the years, you still need
> > to run fsck periodicly anyway.
>
> Where is that documented?

linux-kernel mailing list archives.

David Lang

> I very much agree with that, but when suse10
> switched periodic fsck off, I could not find any docs to show that it
> is bad idea.
> 								Pavel
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