Another data point: I can't remember ever when NTFS didn't come up clean after a crash, except of course when the disk itself was bad.
"NTFS (NT File System) is a proprietary journaling file system developed by Microsoft. Starting with Windows NT 3.1, it is the default file system of the Windows NT family." On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 7:41 AM David Brownlee <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 at 11:46, Mouse <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I think the general consensus is that ffs can be inconsistent it ways > > > fsck is unable to detect. > > > > ...much less fix. Yes. When I was doing the program that eventually > > got massaged into resize_ffs, during development I had some filesystems > > that were definitely corrupted but that fsck was happy with. (I rather > > wish I'd saved some of them as test cases, but I didn't.) > > Sounds like there is an in interesting fuzzing project in there for > someone - make a filesystem mage and the repeatedly damage it, then > see if fsck can fix it, then if you get a rump panic when moving > everything around, and then re-run fsck to see if it indicates any new > issues :) > > (So far 3.5TB of my original RAID1 filesystem transferred to a plain > disk, so should be able to run some A/B fsck tests later today to > establish if the raid controller is the issue in this case) > > David > > > David >
