Re: [patch] ext2/3: document conditions when reliable operation ispossible

[Pavel Machek]

On Fri 2009-08-28 07:49:38, david@xxxxxxx wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Rob Landley wrote:
>
>> Pavel's response was to attempt to document this.  Not that journaling is
>> _bad_, but that it doesn't protect against this class of problem.
>
> I don't think anyone is disagreeing with the statement that journaling  
> doesn't protect against this class of problems, but Pavel's statements  
> didn't say that. he stated that ext3 is more dangerous than ext2.

Well, if you use 'common' fsck policy, ext3 _is_ more dangerous.

But I'm not pushing that to documentation, I'm trying to push info
everyone agrees with. (check the patches).
								Pavel

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