Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 12:51:42 -0400
From: Tom Metro <
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Robert Krawitz wrote:
> On a 500 GB partition, even if extN only checks once every 30 reboots
> or so, it's going to take an awfully long time on those unusual
> occasions.
I use XFS on my big disks, so I haven't noticed this, but does
anyone know why this check isn't performed by a daemon running in
the background? Sure, it'd have to be read-only, but if it observed
problems, it could record where, and notify the user that they need
to reboot for repairs. The repairs should then happen pretty quick,
now that the locations have already been found.
You wouldn't want to write to the filesystem if it's inconsistent (how
do you know what's safe to write to and correct to read from?). It's
also a lot harder to validate the consistency of something that's
changing behind your back.
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