On 08/26/2014 08:44 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Aug 23, 2014, at 6:54 PM, jd1008 <jd1008(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> So, it is not clear to me why there are all these errors, especially since ext4 is
supposed
> to, by design, protect metadata's integrity in the face of such HW problems
(which I
> am unsure what those HW problems are).
Well, no filesystem is impervious to hardware problems. Even if you have metadata and
journal checksumming enabled, which isn't a default still, there is no guarantee.
Gist is, simple mount option -o journal_checksum for journal checksumming. For full
metadata checksumming you need e2fsprogs 1.43. Current in F21 is 1.42.11-2, and it
doesn't support mkfs.ext4 -O metadata_csum,64bit.
https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Metadata_Checksums
Chris Murphy
Well, that's a shame!
At least after I had done the fsck, I lost no files as lost+found was empty.
But that does not mean I did not lose file data in dirty buffers.