hippocampe Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 I use journalled filesystems (XFS and ext3) on my linux box. I did an improper shutdown once and when I booted, it went through a *long* fsck on a XFS partition. It even said that it couldn't recover from the error!!! I thought that the point of having a journalled fs is exactly to avoid this type of problem? Did I miss anything here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Counterspy Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 The only thing that strikes me is that both ext3 and reiserfs have toolkits with repair kits. I would suggest you do a seard for one for XFS. Counterspy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 I thought that the point of having a journalled fs is exactly to avoid this type of problem?Did I miss anything here? If you shutdown improperly you can force a fsck on you partition, it takes the same time for ext3 as for ext2 because they are the same, if you dont force a fsck it will try to recover from the journal which is fast. If there is a problem with the journal(i dont know i have never not been able to recover the journal) i assume that it would perform some journal recovery or a fsck therefore being slow like an ext2 partition during this situation. Usually a journal means you don't have to fsck after a crash making it faster to bootup again, with ext2 you do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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