Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 00:00:46 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net> Subject: Re: background_fsck=no does not work? Message-ID: <200504242201.j3OM0kx7028324@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> of "Sun, 24 Apr 2005 15:19:46 MDT." <426C0D72.9090707@samsco.org>
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Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> writes: >Whether or not its algoritms are correct or the VM and VFS layers >properly support it, modern IDE write caches pretty much make write >orderings a crapshoot. Well.. that can be countered somewhat by using a UPS for servers, or in areas where power is flakey. I'm more concerned about the software being correct, since the handful or so of filesystems I've lost over the years have always been due to software failure (usually some major f*ckup following a kernel panic that fsck couldn't repair...) mkb.
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