linux-kernel - Re: Add a norecovery option to ext3/4?

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0704091835520.21426@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Date:	Mon, 9 Apr 2007 18:37:58 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
cc:	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Add a norecovery option to ext3/4?


On Apr 8 2007 22:24, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Samuel Thibault wrote:
>
> Can you elaborate?  Under what circumstances is log replay going to harm data?
> Do you mean that the installer mounts partitions, looking for what OS is
> installed?  How is that harmful?
>
> Hm, so the root cause there seems that the installer found 2 legs of a mirror
> and mounted them independently, recovering them independently... But why did
> that cause problems?

Because, for whatever unlikely reason there could possibly be, it may
have been repaired differently [depending on sunshine, daytime, rand(), 
or so]?


Jan
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