ext3 Bug in 2.4.20

[Aaron Grewell]

I've only had to fsck ext3 once that I can recall, and I've been using
it more or less since it came out.  For me it's been a very rare
occurrence.

On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 16:48, Net Llama! wrote:
> On 12/03/02 16:23, kwall at kurtwerks.com wrote:
> > SuSE, too (I see Aaron pointed this out, too). You might push ext3 harder 
> > than I do. I have nothing against XFS; it's a superior solution. I'm here
> > at ext3, though, it ain't broken, so I don't feel the need to fix it.
> 
> The sad thing is that i didn't push ext3 any harder than XFS.  Ignoring 
> bugs & instabilities, ext3 still requires a stupid time-consuming fsck. 
>    Yea, sure, the chances of losing data is significantly reduced, but 
> if i wanted to wait an hour for my terrabyte array to fix itself, i'd go 
> back to 1998.