Re: Add a norecovery option to ext3/4?

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> >Distribution installers usually try to probe OSes for 
> >building a suited
> >grub menu.  Unfortunately, mounting an ext3 partition, 
> >even in read-only
> >mode, does perform some operations on the filesystem 
> >(log recovery).
> >This is not a good idea since it may silently garbage 
> >data.  
> 
> Can you elaborate?  Under what circumstances is log 
> replay going to harm data?  Do you mean that the 

Suspend machine, boot from CD trying to read from HDD, resume. People
lost data because of this trap.

Imagine _broken_ disk, with hw dying. Would you rather replay log,
possibly corrupting it even more, or read few files you do care about?

							Pavel
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