Re: online fsck

[marco <marco@accessplus.com.au>]

btinsley wrote:

>What i'm looking for is a check on a reiserfs filesystem that is
>mounted read-write. Many modern filesystems, especially those on NAS
>devices, can run periodic background consistency checks on filesystems
>with almost zero impact on performance. Some devices are reportedly
>running these checks constantly, possibly correcting errors without
>user intervention... even a notification to a sysadmin would be a good
>feature.
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I, too, am looking for a solution to be able to do some sort of check 
_regardless_ of whether and how
the filesystem is mounted.....

>On 5/24/05, marco <marco@accessplus.com.au> wrote:
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>>Running 'fsck.reiserfs --check -y </dev/part>' will do the trick.  The
>>equivalent for ext3 and other filesystems is
>>'fsck -n </dev/part>', the ext3 version detects that it is mounted rw,
>>and does a readonly check.
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>>What I wonder is if we can get fsck.reiser[fs,4] to honour option
>>processing in a manner more consistant with
>>the other fscks, so that adding reiserfs to a list of user choosable
>>filesystems is not going to cause a nightmare
>>of an overhead of filesystem detection, command option re-mapping and
>>other related headaches.....
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