On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:44:38 -0500 "Daniel Phillips" <phillips@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Along with this effort, could you let me know if the world actually > cares about online fsck? Now we know how to do it I think, but is it > worth the effort. With a filesystem that is compartmentalized and checksums metadata, I believe that an online fsck is absolutely worth having. Instead of the filesystem resorting to mounting the whole volume read-only on certain errors, part of the filesystem can be offlined while an fsck runs. This could even be done automatically in many situations. -- All rights reversed. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
