Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Jul 2000 15:12:22 -0400 | From | Nick Cabatoff <> | Subject | Re: ext3-0.0.2e released |
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On Jul 06, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 22:56:31 +1000 > From: Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au> > > > > > 2) Even with journaling filesystems, there will be cases you will need > > to run some kind of filesystem consistency checker. > > Can this be done while the fs is online?
<snip multics reminiscence>
> In practice, though, I'm not aware of any filesystem consistency checker > since the days of Multics that could do this.
There's one for UFS/FFS now on the way in FreeBSD 5.0: Kirk McKusick just released alpha code to do what he calls snapshots, which I'm told will enable background fscking, among other things. See http://people.freebsd.org/~mckusick/snap.tgz (or the freebsd-arch archives) if you're curious.
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