Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Jan 2000 00:29:44 -0500 | Subject | Re: Quiescent filesystems marked with EXT2_VALID_FS while still mounted? | From | tytso@MIT ... |
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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 13:28:55 +0000
I'm fairly sure that under 2.0 kernels, if a filesystem had been unused for a long period of time, it would be marked with EXT2_VALID_FS - with the highly desirable effect that if the machine subsequently crashed, the filesystem wouldn't need a fsck.
Nope, it never did that.
You could potentially do something like that, but it would mean that whenever you tried to write to the filesystem (including inode atime updates), all modifications would have to stall until the EXT2_VALID_FS bit was cleared. It's doable, but it's not clear it's worth it.
- Ted
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