Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Jan 2000 23:17:56 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] Cleanup struct gendisk registration, 2.3.40-pre1 |
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>I was just thinking about that. Might it be possible to do the check in >the background, after mounting the disk? Done sequentially for >partitions on the same disk of course. And perhaps with a bandwidth >throttle. If the background check finds a problem, it does the same >thing as any other time ext2 detects an error.
IIRC the checks must be done all with the superblock lock acquired. So you couldn't do anything with the fs while the checks are running...
Andrea
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