LWN.net Logo

Improving ext4: bigalloc, inline data, and metadata checksums

Improving ext4: bigalloc, inline data, and metadata checksums

Posted Dec 12, 2011 16:46 UTC (Mon) by jimparis (subscriber, #38647)
In reply to: Improving ext4: bigalloc, inline data, and metadata checksums by nye
Parent article: Improving ext4: bigalloc, inline data, and metadata checksums

In my long-ago experience, reiserfsck --fix-fixable did absolutely nothing to improve a broken filesystem, and --rebuild-tree was the only way to get anything out. Maybe you got very lucky?


(Log in to post comments)

Improving ext4: bigalloc, inline data, and metadata checksums

Posted Dec 14, 2011 12:15 UTC (Wed) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]

>Maybe you got very lucky?

Maybe I did. Or maybe you got unlucky. Most of the people commenting on it though *never tried*; they just heard something bad via hearsay and parrotted it, and that just gets to me.

Copyright © 2013, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds