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[Christian Laursen]

Ivan Voras <ivoras at fer.hr> writes:

> Christian Laursen wrote:
>
>> However, with journaling you can have filesystem corruption and not know
>> about it. With fsck, bg or not, at least you will know.
>
> Also, I'm interested about this - what kind of silent corruption? The
> same kind that can generally come from on-drive caches?

Yes, as well as corruption resulting from bugs in the kernel code. The point
is that you will never know because you never check your filesystems.

-- 
Christian Laursen