linux-kernel - Re: document ext3 requirements

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Message-Id: <200901041356.32701.rob@landley.net>
Date:	Sun, 4 Jan 2009 13:56:32 -0600
From:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
To:	Martin MOKREJŠ <mmokrejs@...osome.natur.cuni.cz>
Cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>, Duane Griffin <duaneg@...da.com>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, tytso@....edu,
	mtk.manpages@...il.com, rdunlap@...otime.net,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: document ext3 requirements

On Saturday 03 January 2009 17:01:58 Martin MOKREJŠ wrote:
> > Still handy for recovering badly broken filesystems, I'd say.
>
> Me as well. How about improving you doc patch with some summary of
> this thread (although it is probably not over yet)? ;-) Definitely,
> a note that one can mount it as ext2 while read-only would be helpful
> when doing some forensics on the disk.

Although make sure you _do_ mount it as read only because if you mount an ext3 
filesystem read/write as ext2 I've had it zap the journal entirely and then 
you have to tune2fs -j the sucker to turn it back into ext3.

Ext3 is... touchy.

Rob
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