[vdr] Re: Filesystem pros & cons

[Rene Bartsch <ml@bartschnet.de>]

Am Mon, 2003-08-25 um 13.59 schrieb Steffen Barszus:
> Am Montag, 25. August 2003 13:48 schrieb Christian Vogt:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Clemens Kirchgatterer" <clemens@thf.ath.cx>
> >
> > > that's exactly the point. people tend to think journaling
> > > filesystems save them from data loss on power failure. but that is
> > > an ongoing misunderstanding. they just save you from the
> > > timeconsuming fsck, nothing else.
> >
> > Hmm, ext3 IS a journaling filesystem, right?
> >
> > So why does my standard SUSE 8.1 do a timeconsuming filesystem check
> > on every N'th mount of the ext3 partition? (I think N is something
> > around 30, and the check takes more than 5 minutes for my 120GB disk
> > - a long time when you have started the box because you wanted to
> > watch tv... ;-)
> >
> > Is it misconfigured or 'by design' ?
> > Any idea how to stop this?
> 
> Its a flaw in some current Distros. The same goes for Mandrake 9.1 and i 
> guess there may be other distros as well having these problems. In fact 
> the chance that you will lose something is bigger with a fsck, than 
> with a journal replay. So you should make sure as hell that you don't 
> run a fsck after a crash. 
> 

You should report that to cooker ...

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