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Christian Laursen wrote:
> Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> writes:
>
>   
>> Christian Laursen wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> However, with journaling you can have filesystem corruption and not know
>>> about it. With fsck, bg or not, at least you will know.
>>>       
>> Also, I'm interested about this - what kind of silent corruption? The
>> same kind that can generally come from on-drive caches?
>>     
>
> Yes, as well as corruption resulting from bugs in the kernel code. The point
> is that you will never know because you never check your filesystems.
>   
Well, thats why i actually don't find journaling filesystems very sexy. 
So the question is, if it is still safe to use fsck on a gjournal 
enabled FS ?

Having a bgfsck running on a 1 TB volume is not so terrible when it 
afterwards confirms a valid and consistent filesystem.. Just trusting 
the journal is a false sense of security in my opinion.

my 2cp

Stephan