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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Leslie Rhorer <lrhorer@satx.rr.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: md software raid
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:50:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091028035046.GA19955@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091028005303577.NTSS9287@cdptpa-omta02.mail.rr.com>

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 07:52:56PM -0500, Leslie Rhorer wrote:
> 
> > 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.

xfs_repair is a separate program that is actually mainainted.  xfs_check
is deprecated and we'll eventually remove it after porting one
remaining checking pass over to xfs_repair (currently xfs_repair can't
check the freespace btree but only fully rebuild them when in repair
mode)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-28  3:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-23  9:11 md software raid ian.d
2009-10-23  9:38 ` Robin Hill
2009-10-27 10:19   ` Ian Docherty
2009-10-27 20:52     ` Bill Davidsen
2009-10-27 20:55       ` Richard Scobie
2009-10-27 21:15         ` Christopher Chen
2009-10-28  0:45       ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-10-28  0:47         ` Majed B.
2009-10-28  0:52           ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-10-28  0:58             ` Majed B.
2009-10-28  0:50               ` Richard Scobie
2009-10-27 22:00                 ` Ric Wheeler
2009-10-28 15:08                   ` Eric Sandeen
2009-10-28 16:06                     ` Bernd Schubert
2009-10-28 23:39                       ` Dave Chinner
2009-10-28  1:09                 ` Max Waterman
2009-10-28  1:10                 ` Majed B.
2009-10-28  2:03                   ` Richard Scobie
2009-10-28  2:11                   ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-10-28  2:26                     ` Majed B.
     [not found]                       ` <4D87015385157D4285D56CA6101072FF3A6675B8@exchange07.valvesoftware.com>
2009-10-28  2:52                         ` Majed B.
2009-10-28  3:26                           ` Guy Watkins
2009-10-28  3:08                         ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-10-28  3:11                           ` Chris Green
2009-10-28  3:29                             ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-11-05 13:51                               ` Matt Garman
2009-10-28  3:35                             ` Guy Watkins
2009-10-28 11:27                               ` Max Waterman
2009-10-28  2:54                       ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-10-28  3:50             ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-10-28  6:37               ` Leslie Rhorer

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