Date: 30 Jun 2005 17:44:12 +0200 From: Christian Laursen <xi@borderworlds.dk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: background fsck can be dangerous! Message-ID: <86acl7j1df.fsf@borg.borderworlds.dk> In-Reply-To: <200506301536.j5UFaG5Q002163@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> References: <200506301536.j5UFaG5Q002163@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net>
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Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> writes: > Christian Laursen <xi@borderworlds.dk> writes: > > >Remember that if you are having trouble with softupdates and background > >fsck reporting inconsistencies, journalling will just give you silent > >filesystem corruption instead. > > What makes you believe so? Assuming the inconsistencies are not caused by bugs in softupdates the only thing that will cause it is hardware that does not live up to the requirements, e.g. ata drives with write caching enabled. Journalling has the same requirements to the hardware. -- Christian Laursen
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