> On May 6, 2018, at 4:27 PM, Eero Tamminen <o...@helsinkinet.fi> wrote: > > Hi, > > On 05/06/2018 03:10 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>>> On May 6, 2018, at 1:52 PM, Eero Tamminen <o...@helsinkinet.fi> wrote: >>>>> On 05/06/2018 01:12 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: >>>>> Al Viro - 06.05.18, 02:59: >>>>> Funny, that... I'd been going through the damn thing for the >>>>> last week or so; open-by-fhandle/nfs export support is completely >>>>> buggered. And as for the rest... the least said about the error >>>>> handling, the better - something like rename() hitting an IO >>>>> error (read one) can not only screw the on-disk data into the >>>>> ground, it can do seriously bad things to kernel data structures. >>>>> >>>>> Is there anything resembling fsck for that thing, BTW? Nevermind >>>>> the repairs, just the validity checks would be nice... >>>> I am not aware of the fsck command for affs on Linux. There is a >>>> partitioning tool called amiga-fdisk, but for checking a filesystem you >>>> would need to use a tool under AmigaOS. >>> >>> So, it should be made read-only FS, until the problems are >>> fixed (and there's linux-native FS consistency checker)? >> No, it shouldn’t. >>> Read-only mode should be enough for the data rescue purposes >>> mentioned in the list. > > I meant read-only by default... > > >> This is for the second usecase I mentioned. The first usecase requires write >> access. > > ...So anybody wanting to do writes with it, would need to enable > that him/herself and read warnings about it being unsafe and > about the importance of doing backups before enabling/using it. > > (Similarly to NTFS support, before its write side was stable.) > > >> Again, it works fine for our usecases in Debian m68k, >> so please don’t mutilate its functionality. > > Based on above comments, that's only by luck. I'd assume > disks still having AFFS on them to be fairly old and therefore > rather likely to get IO errors. Moving new files on the disk > is likely to involve file renames for the old ones.
It never broke for me on a single instance and I use it regularly. Really. These discussions are extremely frustrating to the point that I just want to leave. Just stop it! Don’t make decisions based on assumptions unless you have actual data and not some constructed theoretical situation. Adrian
