Re: shall distros run btrfsck on boot?

[Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>]

Jeff Mahoney wrote on 2015/11/28 11:52 -0500:
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> On 11/23/15 11:02 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
>> Hey.
>>
>> Short question since that came up on debian-devel.
>>
>> Now that btrfs check get's more and more useful, are the
>> developers going to recommend running it periodically on boot (of
>> course that wouldn't work right now, as it would *always* check)?
>
> Running fsck on boot is a holdover from an era where non-journaling
> file systems were the norm.  It persists in the ext* world mostly due
> to inertia, but it shouldn't be run on boot with ext3 or ext4 either.
>   As Eric noted, fsck.xfs is a no-op.  We have something similar for
> btrfs and have no intention of ever running fsck on boot with btrfs
> except in the case of a mount failure of the root file system.
>
>> Plus... is btrfs check (without any arguments) non-desctructive, or
>> are there corner-cases where it may lead to any changes on the
>> devices?
>
> I haven't reviewed it in detail, but a quick glance makes it look like
> it will, minimally, create transactions even in check-only mode.

This seems interesting.

Any clue to enhance?

Thanks,
Qu
>
> - -Jeff
>
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> Jeff Mahoney
> SUSE Labs
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