On Wed 2009-08-26 06:43:24, david@lang.hm wrote:
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> 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.

That's not where fs documentation belongs :-(.
									Pavel
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