On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 02:25:03PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Oct 31, 2005 01:13 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me the history of CONFIG_EXT{2,3}_CHECK?
> >
> > There is code for a "check" option for mount if these options are
> > enabled, but there's no way to enable them.
>
> These are expensive debugging options, which walk the inode/block bitmaps
> for getting the group inode/block usage instead of using the group
> summary data. Not used very often but I suspect occasionally useful for
> developers mucking with ext[23] internals. Since it is developer-only
> code it needs to be enabled with #define CONFIG_EXT[23]_CHECK in a
> header or compile option.
It's basically a stripped down version of e2fsck pass #5, though. Is
there any reason why this needs to be in the kernel? If it would be
useful I could easily make a userspace implementation of these checks.
- Ted
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