From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: marco Subject: Re: online fsck Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 16:15:15 +1000 Message-ID: <4296BAF3.1030803@accessplus.com.au> References: <263a8b350505231124758be936@mail.gmail.com> <42930542.1000407@namesys.com> <4293B817.5030906@accessplus.com.au> <263a8b35050524200220eff78b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <263a8b35050524200220eff78b@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com 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. > > > 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 wrote: > > >> >>Running 'fsck.reiserfs --check -y ' will do the trick. The >>equivalent for ext3 and other filesystems is >>'fsck -n ', the ext3 version detects that it is mounted rw, >>and does a readonly check. >> >>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..... >> >> >>