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DateTue, 8 Jan 2008 23:45:56 -0800
From"Valerie Henson" <>
SubjectRe: [RFD] Incremental fsck
On Jan 8, 2008 8:40 PM, Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com> wrote:
> Rik van Riel wrote:
> > Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com> wrote:
> > > Has there been some thought about an incremental fsck?
> > >
> > > You know, somehow fencing a sub-dir to do an online fsck?
> >
> > Search for "chunkfs"
>
> Sure, and there is TileFS too.
>
> But why wouldn't it be possible to do this on the current fs infrastructure,
> using just a smart fsck, working incrementally on some sub-dir?

Several data structures are file system wide and require finding every
allocated file and block to check that they are correct.  In
particular, block and inode bitmaps can't be checked per subdirectory.

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~val/review/chunkfs.pdf

-VAL

-VAL


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