From: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>
To: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Cc: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@bitwizard.nl>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fsck performance.
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:02:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110224090232.GG16661@bitwizard.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinv-JPaiPzKC4xSqh0shmzjf4rKeQShRwiOznoz@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:59:23AM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> That tool is e2image -r, which creates a sparse file image of your
> fs (only metadata is written, the rest is holes), so you need to be
> careful when copying/transferring it to another machine to do it
> wisely (i.e. bzip or dd directly to a new HDD) Not sure what you
> will do if fsck fixes errors on that image... Mostly (if it didn't
> clone multiply claimed blocks for example), you would be able to
> write the fixed image back onto your original fs, but that would be
> risky.
I can then run the fsck tests on the image. I expect fsck to find
errors: I'm using the filesystem when I'm making that image.... It
won't be consistent.
Roger.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-24 9:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-20 9:06 fsck performance Rogier Wolff
2011-02-20 17:09 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-02-20 19:34 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-02-20 21:55 ` Rogier Wolff
2011-02-20 22:20 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-02-20 23:15 ` Rogier Wolff
2011-02-20 23:41 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-02-21 10:31 ` Amir Goldstein
2011-02-21 16:04 ` Paweł Brodacki
2011-02-21 18:00 ` Andreas Dilger
2011-02-22 10:20 ` Rogier Wolff
2011-02-22 13:36 ` Rogier Wolff
2011-02-22 13:54 ` Rogier Wolff
2011-02-22 16:32 ` Andreas Dilger
2011-02-22 22:13 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-02-23 4:44 ` Rogier Wolff
2011-02-23 11:32 ` Theodore Tso
2011-02-23 20:53 ` Rogier Wolff
2011-02-23 22:24 ` Andreas Dilger
2011-02-23 23:17 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-02-24 0:41 ` Andreas Dilger
2011-02-24 8:59 ` Rogier Wolff
2011-02-24 7:29 ` Rogier Wolff
2011-02-24 8:59 ` Amir Goldstein
2011-02-24 9:02 ` Rogier Wolff [this message]
2011-02-24 9:33 ` Amir Goldstein
2011-02-24 23:53 ` Rogier Wolff
2011-02-25 0:26 ` Daniel Taylor
2011-02-23 2:54 ` Rogier Wolff
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