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SubjectRe: Quiescent filesystems marked with EXT2_VALID_FS while still mounted?
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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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