On Apr 22, 2008 12:02 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Peter Teoh wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> If you really just want to verify a snapshot of the fs at a point in > >> time, surely there are simpler ways. If the device is on lvm, there's > >> already a script floating around to do it in automated fasion. (I'd > >> pondered the idea of introducing META_WRITE (to go with META_READ) and > >> maybe lvm could do a "metadata-only" snapshot to be lighter weight?) > > > > Can I know where is this script? Or if u cannot locate it, does it > > have any resemblance to all the stuff mentioned below?. > > Google for "lvcheck" and find it buried in a thread "forced fsck > (again?)" on the ext3-users list - I'm not sure if it has an upstream > home anywhere yet... We thought the best place to put it would be in the lvm2 utilities, since it is tied to LVM snapshots (and not really a particular filesystem). Eric, any chance you could pass the script over to the LVM folks at RH? AFAIK, they are the official LVM/DM maintainers still (adopted as part of Sistina and GFS). Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
