Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 May 2001 23:15:47 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption. |
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On Sun, 6 May 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 04:50:01AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> About a kernel based fsck Alexander told me he likes it, I > personally don't care about it that much because I believe... > > As I said, I'm not takling about kernel based fsck, although for > _VERY_ large filesystems even with journalling I suspect it will be > required one day (so it can run in the background and do consistency > checking when the machine is idle).
It's not exactly "kernel-based fsck". What I've been talking about is secondary filesystem providing coherent access to primary fs metadata. I.e. mount -t ext2meta -o master=/usr none /mnt and then access through /mnt/super, /mnt/block_bitmap, etc.
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