Re: bcache with existing ext4 filesystem

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

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On Tue 2017-07-25 14:02:25, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 03:46:04PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > 
> > Is there some field in ext2 superblock that changes every time
> > filesystem is changed? Is mtime changed by fsck/badblocks/...?
> 
> No, there isn't.  If we were writing the superblock every time the
> file system is changed it would be ***extremely*** flash unfriendly.
> It would also be a scalability bottleneck, it would cause us to pay an
> extra HDD seek, etc.  So it's a really bad Bad BAD idea, and so we
> don't do it.

Ok, I did not mean "every time" when I said "every time". That would
be too heavy.

I mean... is there something changed by the regular mount (like mtime)
plus by operations like fsck and badblocks?

In particular, does fsck change mtime when it writes to the
filesystem?

Thanks,
									Pavel
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