From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:56776 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754307AbbKXW0t (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:26:49 -0500 Subject: Re: shall distros run btrfsck on boot? To: Austin S Hemmelgarn , Christoph Anton Mitterer , Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org References: <1448337754.14125.33.camel@scientia.net> <1448340211.14125.44.camel@scientia.net> <56549AFB.3040904@redhat.com> <1448385809.21291.22.camel@scientia.net> <5654CAE0.5040907@gmail.com> From: Eric Sandeen Message-ID: <5654E427.6060708@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 16:26:47 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5654CAE0.5040907@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 11/24/15 2:38 PM, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: > if the system was > shut down cleanly, you're fine barring software bugs, but if it > crashed, you should be running a check on the FS. Um, no... The *entire point* of having a journaling filesystem is that after a crash or power loss, a journal replay on next mount will bring the metadata into a consistent state. -Eric