From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262370AbUK3Wnj (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:43:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262384AbUK3Wni (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:43:38 -0500 Received: from gprs214-130.eurotel.cz ([160.218.214.130]:13698 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262370AbUK3Wii (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:38:38 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:38:23 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Matthew Garrett Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Suspend 2 merge: 49/51: Checksumming Message-ID: <20041130223823.GA1522@elf.ucw.cz> References: <1101292194.5805.180.camel@desktop.cunninghams> <1101300589.5805.392.camel@desktop.cunninghams> <200411290455.10318.rob@landley.net> <200411290455.10318.rob@landley.net> <20041130130227.GA4670@openzaurus.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > Yes, it would be good sanity check. ext3 replays journals even on > > read-only mount so your / will need to be ext2... > > The alternative is to have a userspace application that can check these > things without having to replay the log. Well, that works as long as you do not have your application on ext3 filesystem :-). If your root filesystem is ext2, you have no problem, and whether or not checking is done in kernelspace does not matter. Well, you could probably mount ext3 as read-only ext2... Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl!