Re: Mentor for a GSoC application wanted (Online ext2/3 filesystem checker)

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>]

Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Apr 22, 2008  12:02 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> Peter Teoh wrote:
>>> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>  If you really just want to verify a snapshot of the fs at a point in
>>>>  time, surely there are simpler ways.  If the device is on lvm, there's
>>>>  already a script floating around to do it in automated fasion.  (I'd
>>>>  pondered the idea of introducing META_WRITE (to go with META_READ) and
>>>>  maybe lvm could do a "metadata-only" snapshot to be lighter weight?)
>>> Can I know where is this script?   Or if u cannot locate it, does it
>>> have any resemblance to all the stuff mentioned below?.
>> Google for "lvcheck" and find it buried in a thread "forced fsck
>> (again?)" on the ext3-users list - I'm not sure if it has an upstream
>> home anywhere yet...
> 
> We thought the best place to put it would be in the lvm2 utilities, since
> it is tied to LVM snapshots (and not really a particular filesystem).
> 
> Eric, any chance you could pass the script over to the LVM folks at RH?
> AFAIK, they are the official LVM/DM maintainers still (adopted as part of
> Sistina and GFS).

Sure, I'll see who I can bug :)

-Eric