On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) <
lop...@nedharvey.com> wrote:

> I agree, except, that "usable != clean" is irrelevant.  The whole point of
> the journal is that your filesystem doesn't *need* to be clean.  Any part
> of the FS that isn't clean, by definition, you are not using.  As soon as
> you use it, it becomes clean.
>

This sounds like a severe misunderstanding of how journaling works to me.
It is not, in fact, a magic wand that fixes filesystems on the fly; it is a
tool to try to avoid corruption and to speed up bringing a filesystem up to
date. And, poorly implemented and applied with the mentality you're
showing, it is quite good at covering up serious corruption until it is far
too late to fix it.

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