Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: Quiescent filesystems marked with EXT2_VALID_FS while still mounted? | Date | Fri, 21 Jan 2000 09:34:13 -0700 (MST) |
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Fuzzy Fox writes: > David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote: > > I've lost count of the times I've watched my box fsck huge partitions > > that it hadn't even touched before the crash - not even for an atime > > update. > > In such a case (filesystems that it would be nice to have available, but > rarely get touched or examined), you may with to consider an autofs > solution.
This is what ext2 will fix instantly. If there are no outstanding journal transactions for a filesystem (i.e. quiescent filesystem), fsck time is basically zero for a filesystem no matter how big it is. No point in hacking something new in at this time for a problem that has already been solved, IMHO.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert
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