2012/2/15 Pádraig Brady <P@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On 02/07/2012 09:05 PM, Frank Mayhar wrote: >> This set of patches adds functions that help improve fsck operation in >> large installations and when running in unattended or headless mode. It >> adds support for reporting rusage statistics for the individual fsck >> runs, for capturing fsck output, for killing fsck runs that take too >> long and for running scripts when each fsck completes. >> >> We're currently using these functions to improve our fsck monitoring >> capability and to replace some unwieldy and hard-to-maintain shell >> scripts. > > Couldn't you do this with separate fsck command runs, > and use standard system utils? Yes, of course. That's where the "unwieldy and hard-to-maintain shell scripts" came in. Putting the functions in the wrapper itself, on the other hand, means the scripts don't have to reimplement functions that already exist there (like parallelizing the fsck runs or tracking exit status), eliminates some external dependencies and makes the process quite a bit less fragile. -- Frank Mayhar fmayhar@xxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
