Messages in this thread | | | From | Al Boldi <> | Subject | Re: [RFD] Incremental fsck | Date | Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:26:53 +0300 |
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Rik van Riel wrote: > Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com> wrote: > > Ok, but let's look at this a bit more opportunistic / optimistic. > > You can't play fast and loose with data integrity.
Correct, but you have to be realistic...
> Besides, if we looked at things optimistically, we would conclude > that no fsck will be needed,
And that's the reality, because people are mostly optimistic and feel extremely tempted to just force-mount a dirty ext3fs, instead of waiting hours-on-end for a complete fsck, which mostly comes back with some benign "inode should be zero" warning.
> ever :)
Well not ever, but most people probably fsck during scheduled shutdowns, or when they are forced to, due to online fs accessibility errors.
> > > http://infohost.nmt.edu/~val/review/chunkfs.pdf > > You will really want to read this paper, if you haven't already.
Definitely a good read, but attacking the problem from a completely different POV.
BTW: Dropped some cc's due to bounces.
Thanks!
-- Al
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