Re: The ext3 way of journalling

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Jan 08 2008 - 13:49:34 EST


> be a bit longer), but it gets confused and thinks it's been years since
> last check, when it hasn't. I have my doubts that Theodore Tso's reply
> is the problem here, because I didn't use to have this problem; it
> appeared relatively recently. But maybe old versions of e2fsck were

This is a bug in your system or distribution. We used to see it years ago
when the disk caches didn't get flushed before power off. The last write
would vanish and on a shutdown was almost always the superblock time
update.

Alan
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