From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932249AbWHJAIO (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 20:08:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932285AbWHJAIO (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 20:08:14 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.168]:24083 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932249AbWHJAIN (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 20:08:13 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=AY1pDjWXaflwPZGIEsc9HBFr0mTicGY5FZfg/0qmjwf89ej3iRDVnmujPIBMYJ7581ojDSrttJ+s4LVYoaAXDB0tspZEtDHjRl+NZrem2u7iHNU/QD53+250iBDkr20KzlJlPNi12YL5ZBwBttNE850sBkV/E5YvKb/kMR3/91g= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 01:08:12 +0100 From: "Duane Griffin" To: "Molle Bestefich" Subject: Re: ext3 corruption Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <62b0912f0608091609q6b3c6c4ev2d287060fa209@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <62b0912f0607131332u5c390acfrd290e2129b97d7d9@mail.gmail.com> <62b0912f0608081647p2d540f43t84767837ba523dc4@mail.gmail.com> <62b0912f0608090822n2d0c44c4uc33b5b1db00e9d33@mail.gmail.com> <1A5F0A2F95110B3F35E8A9B5@dhcp-2-206.wgops.com> <62b0912f0608091128n4d32d437h45cf74af893dc7c8@mail.gmail.com> <62b0912f0608091347u8b86d40q3679991e9e16526f@mail.gmail.com> <62b0912f0608091609q6b3c6c4ev2d287060fa209@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 1c27f7724dc13543 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/08/06, Molle Bestefich wrote: > If it doesn't take into account own changes, then the -n command is > unable to produce even a slightly accurate resemblence of what would > happen if I did a real run. It takes into account some of them (such as reading data from the backup superblock if it detects corruption). Others will be irrelevent for further operations. Many reports will be accurate, especially fatal ones. I consider that useful, YMMV. Cheers, Duane. -- "I never could learn to drink that blood and call it wine" - Bob Dylan