linux-kernel - Re: The ext3 way of journalling

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Message-ID: <20080108184717.0abcb312@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:47:17 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Tuomo Valkonen <tuomov@....fi>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The ext3 way of journalling

> 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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