Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Jeroen Dekkers <jeroen@dekkers.cx> writes:

> > The bugs that happen are *not* merely that you lose occasional object
> > files.  You can get arbitrary corruption.
> 
> And then fsck can repair that in the case of a crash, right?

No.

The normal rules--the ones that I describe as "bug free" keep things
such that fsck can repair them.

Breaking those rules--thus, what I mean by a "bug"--produces possible
forms of corruption that cannot be automatically fixed by fsck.

> It would be a lot nicer if glibc would compile a lot faster and have
> some filesystem corruption *if* there would be a crash. However, there
> should be no crash in the first place.

Apparently your local power company is better than the ones we have in
the US...

Thomas