Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3
Pavel Machek <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.file-systems,gmane.comp.file-systems.ext2.devel,gmane.linux.kernel |
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Hi! > >Please don't. AFAIK, ext2/3 is only filesystem with > >working fsck > >(because that fsck was actually needed in the old > >days). Starting from > >xfs/jfs/reiser/??? means we no longer have working > >fsck... > > Er, what do you mean by "working fsck"? Passes 8 hours of me trying to intentionally break it with weird, artifical disk corruption. I even have script somewhere. > Unless I'm misunderstanding something, JFS also has a > working fsck > (which has actually performed successful repair of > real-world > filesystem corruption for me, although I haven't used it > as much as > e2fsck or xfs_repair). ...like, if it repaired 100 different, non-trivial corruptions, that would be argument. fsck.ext2 survives my torture (in some versions). fsck.vfat never worked for me (likes to segfault), fsck.reiser never worked for me. Pavel -- Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html