On Nov 11, 2013, at 5:43 AM, Stan Hoeppner <stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> What about filesystem state? Does it matter if a filesystem is mounted when check is run? > > I'm not an EXT user. See "man e2fsck". > > With XFS you can check while mounted using "xfs_repair -n [device]", but > no repairs will be performed, you simply get a report. To repair a > damaged XFS filesystem use the same command sans "-n" on the unmounted > filesystem. xfs_repair will abort if the filesystem is mounted, and > "-n" is not specified. xfs_repair is not to be automated via > script/cron. It is only to be run if/when errors are encountered, > usually after a crash, power loss, controller failure, etc. Oh, I meant 'check' as in echo check > /sys/block/$DEVICE/md/sync_action That, and I also read on my distro's wiki that 'check' will pick up where it was interrupted automatically in those cases when a system is rebooted before 'check' is complete. Well, apparently it does not work that way because I was only some 4% into 'check' yesterday evening, and after resume from sleep mdstat does not show that 'check' is running. So, does the distro's wiki contain erroneous information? Ivan-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
