Re: ext2 vs ext3 vs xfs vs reiserfs
Vincent Lefevre said:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:16:13 -0800, nate wrote:
> Then, why is fsck necessary with ext3?
tradititional fsck should not be with ext3's journalling turned on
(sometimes people forget to mount it with the right options so the right
journalling isn't enabled, I forget what these options are, just have
read them in various posts on the topic). A took which can check
the consistancy of the journal may be needed though(fsck for ext3 may
do this transparently). reiser has a tool that does this as well but
it doesn't do an actual filesystem check(in the traditional sense like
on ext2, or ufs or whatever) from what I can tell in the help for resiercheck
at least. This tool would also be responsible for replaying journal
entries to restore filesystem integrtity(of course this by no means
insures the data is intact, only that the filesystem is intact).
nate
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