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And this is relevant to ext4... exactly how?

And this is relevant to ext4... exactly how?

Posted Dec 3, 2011 0:40 UTC (Sat) by walex (subscriber, #69836)
In reply to: And this is relevant to ext4... exactly how? by dlang
Parent article: Improving ext4: bigalloc, inline data, and metadata checksums

An unclean shutdown is usually not that damaged, which can however happen with a particularly bad unclean shutdown (lots of stuff in flight, for example on a wide RAID) or RAM/disk errors. The report I saw was not for a "enterprise" system with battery, ECC and a redundant storage layer.


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