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SubjectRe: New concept of ext3 disk checks
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In article <411BAFCA.92217D16@orpatec.ch> you wrote:
> - Instead of checks forced during startup checks are done during runtime
> (at low priority). It has to be determined if these checks are _only_
> checks or if they also include possible fixes. Possible solution might
> distinct between the severity of any discovered problem.

BTW: FreeBSD5 supports the fsck of a unclean filesystem in the background.
(Actually it supports to mount unclean filesystems because they are "always"
consistent and do reclaiming of unreferenced objects in a fsck in background
based on a snapshot)

I am not sure why the softupdates are so reliable, that no fsck is needed,
but I know it is pretty cool to do it in background only, especially for
notebooks. And I agree that background checks of long running systems may
catch problems - however I am not sure how a consitent FS view is best
created for that.

Greetings
Bernd
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