linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] handle ext3 directory corruption better

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Date:	Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:35:42 -0500
From:	Phillip Susi <psusi@....rr.com>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
CC:	Steve Grubb <sgrubb@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] handle ext3 directory corruption better

Another expectation is that after the fsck, you won't loose any more 
data that you could access by mounting the damaged filesystem.  There 
are a lot of horror stories out there of people only having a slightly 
damaged fs, and after a fsck, they lost a lot more data.

Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> Nice... can you run the same tool against fsck, too?
> 
> I did that some time ago, with less evil tool, and got some
> interesting results.
> 
> (Expectation is that no matter how you corrupt fs, fsck will get it
> back to consistent state...)
> 						Pavel

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