Re: How errorproof is ext2 fs?

Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Sun, 16 Sep 2001 10:58:46 +0200 (MEST)

Alan Cox wrote:
> > due to an not responding USB-keyboard/-mouse (what a nice coincident). Now while
> > the Mac restarted without any fuse I had to fix the ext2-fs manually for about
> > 15 min. Luckily it seems I haven't lost anything on both system.
> >
> > This leaves me a bad taste of Linux in my mouth. Does ext2 fs really behave so
> > worse in case of a crash? Okay Linux does not crash that often as MacOS does, so

> That sounds like it behaved well. fsck didnt have enough info to safely
> do all the fixup without asking you. Its not a reliability issue as such.

Well, fsck wants to ask

"Found an unattached inode, connect to lost+found?"

to the user and will interrupt an automatic reboot for that.

This is bad: The safe choice is safe: It won't cause data-loss.

Maybe it should report it (say by Email), but interrupting a reboot
just for connecting a couple of files to lost+found, that's
rediculous.

If it would give me enough information when I do this manually, I'd
make an informed decision. However, what are the chances of me knowing
that inode 123456 is a staroffice bak-file? So the only way to safely
operate is to link them into lost+found, and then to look at the files
manually.

Roger. 

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