From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Leslie Rhorer" Subject: RE: md software raid Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:52:56 -0500 Message-ID: <20091028005303577.NTSS9287@cdptpa-omta02.mail.rr.com> References: <70ed7c3e0910271747o29e53a69l2b88de8d538284aa@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <70ed7c3e0910271747o29e53a69l2b88de8d538284aa@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids > Leslie, > > How do you check xfs? xfs_check? Yes. > Why not use xfs_repair -n? I guess the short answer is, "I didn't know it would make a difference". I take it, then, xfs_repair uses a completely different method of scanning for errors than xfs_check, one whihcdoes not require so much memory? I find that a bit surprising.