On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 23:01 +1000, Dan wrote: > Hello, Hello, Dan. Thank you for your input! > > As you have noted, xfs tends to repair itself at mount time by > replaying > the journal. Well we would have to diff the "replaying the journal" and "repairing inconsistency" concepts... > > xfs_check is a tool for fixing more serious low-level issues with > xfs. > xfs_check is not fsck. yes, I realized when I cat /sbin/fsck.xfs ... ;=s > > Why do you think you need to run xfs_repair ? When the power goes off or my PC freezes (check out the firefox freezing thread) I have to do a hard reset. This, sometimes, generates inconsistencies on the fs. > > In my experience, the only time xfs_repair has been required is when > there have been hardware issues with the controller, storage driver, > cabling, or with the physical drive. For example, once, I had to do an xfs_repair because certain /usr/share/doc directory was inaccessible and was causing all kinds of trouble when yum upgrade -y was run by me. xfs_repair did the job well. I would like to be able to run it without having to reboot to the rescue cd... Or, maybe, generating a rescue partition would be cool too! > > Generally speaking, an xfs file system will heal itself without any > user > intervention, unless there are more sinister things at play. > > Regards, > > Dan -- Renich Bon Ciric http://www.woralelandia.com/ # Facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=674792460 # introbella (band) http://www.introbella.com/ # Smolt uuid (pub_3e18efc2-dee4-459f-8d40-ddf489be817d) http://www.smolts.org/client/show/?uuid=pub_3e18efc2-dee4-459f-8d40-ddf489be817d
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