The comment about fsck failing was, at least to me, pretty clear
indication that the author was talking about what happens during
a crash.
>I'm inclined to agree, especially since elsewhere he refers to ext2 as
>"the fast and unsafe grandchild" of FFS.
I don't know if it's a grandchild of FFS, but it is a little bit
less safe theoretically (though I've managed to lose a grand total
of one file from that sort of metadata corruption in the past seven
years of running Linux-based news servers [*].)
[* Including some interesting power related crashes -- if you don't
have enough power in the box, guess when the smoke will be let
out? When all seven of your disks (and three SCSI controllers)
are cheerfully running an expire, that's when.]
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david parsons \bi/ I suspect I've not lost any binaries, since I still
\/ have some 7-year old Linux binaries that still work,
despite traditionally living on very busy filesystems
when the system goes south for one reason or another.)
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