Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 6 Sep 2019 08:43:28 -0600 | From | Jonathan Corbet <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Documentation: sysrq: don't recommend 'S' 'U' before 'B' |
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On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 18:08:40 +0200 Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:
> This advice is obsolete and slightly harmful for filesystems from this > millenium: any modern filesystem can handle unexpected crashes without > requiring fsck -- and on the other hand, trying to write to the disk when > the kernel is in a bad state risks introducing corruption. > > For ext2, any unsafe shutdown meant widespread breakage, but it's no longer > a reasonable filesystem for any non-special use. > > Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Makes sense to me. Applied, thanks.
jon
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