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SubjectRe: [Patch] document ext3 requirements (was Re: [RFD] Incremental fsck)
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:44:38 -0500
"Daniel Phillips" <phillips@google.com> wrote:

> Along with this effort, could you let me know if the world actually
> cares about online fsck? Now we know how to do it I think, but is it
> worth the effort.

With a filesystem that is compartmentalized and checksums metadata,
I believe that an online fsck is absolutely worth having.

Instead of the filesystem resorting to mounting the whole volume
read-only on certain errors, part of the filesystem can be offlined
while an fsck runs. This could even be done automatically in many
situations.

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