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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New concept of ext3 disk checks
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 01:24:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3acx0szwu.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2swyz-3ny-13@gated-at.bofh.it> (Theodore Ts'o's message of "Fri, 13 Aug 2004 00:50:07 +0200")

Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> writes:

> 4) If there were no errors detecting by the fsck run, run the command
> "tune2fs -C 0 -T now /dev/XXX" on the live filesystem.  This sets the
> mount count and last filesystem checked time to the appropriate values
> in the superblock.

Is it safe now to run tune2fs on a mounted busy fs? afaik it would
need at least support to quiescence the fs temporarily. Otherwise you 
have a race window where changes to the superblock could get lost.

-Andi


       reply	other threads:[~2004-08-12 23:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <2ssbz-jB-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <2swyz-3ny-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-08-12 23:24   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-08-12 23:48     ` New concept of ext3 disk checks Theodore Ts'o
2004-08-12 17:58 Otto Wyss
2004-08-12 18:58 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-08-12 21:07   ` Lee Revell
2004-08-12 19:46 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-14  7:26   ` Otto Wyss
2004-08-12 22:39 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-08-12 23:55   ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-08-13  0:34   ` Andreas Dilger
2004-08-14  7:15     ` Otto Wyss
2004-08-15  0:23       ` Andreas Dilger

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