On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Pavel Machek wrote:

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>>>> 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

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> 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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