On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:16:13 -0800, nate wrote: > Cameron Hutchison said: > > The authors of XFS seem to think that because it is a journalling > > filesystem, a filesystem repair tool is not necessary. > > yes this is true, I forgot about it. a few years ago I was replacing > a drive on a SGI box which was running XFS. The system refused to run > fsck. It told me something like 'you don't need to fsck a xfs volume', > even though the disk was failing and data was being lost at the time.
Then, why is fsck necessary with ext3? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> - 100% validated (X)HTML - Acorn Risc PC, Yellow Pig 17, Championnat International des Jeux Mathématiques et Logiques, TETRHEX, etc. Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
