On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 08:59:08PM +0200, Michael van Elst wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 11:25:08AM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> > 
> > >True, the journal would be lost.
> > 
> > It's not just the journal -- if you can't recover the journal, you  
> > can't even be sure that the file system is fsck'able.
> 
> So how does the rest of the world do it?

http://lxr.linux.no/source/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt#L224

Pavel