Messages in this thread | | | From | Al Boldi <> | Subject | Re: [RFD] Incremental fsck | Date | Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:20:53 +0300 |
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Bodo Eggert wrote: > Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com> wrote: > > Even after a black-out shutdown, the corruption is pretty minimal, using > > ext3fs at least. So let's take advantage of this fact and do an > > optimistic fsck, to assure integrity per-dir, and assume no external > > corruption. Then we release this checked dir to the wild (optionally > > ro), and check the next. Once we find external inconsistencies we either > > fix it unconditionally, based on some preconfigured actions, or present > > the user with options. > > Maybe we can know the changes that need to be done in order to fix the > filesystem. Let's record this information in - eh - let's call it a > journal!
Don't mistake data=journal as an fsck replacement.
Thanks!
-- Al
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