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From: Phillip Susi <phill@thesusis.net>
To: Luigi Fabio <luigi.fabio@gmail.com>
Cc: Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID5 failure and consequent ext4 problems
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 08:47:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wna7zbe1.fsf@vps.thesusis.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJJqR21jhoE5Ot1Vc9qRB10sOCB70dMBsLQkZ71Buy1=kBtvyQ@mail.gmail.com>


Luigi Fabio <luigi.fabio@gmail.com> writes:

> The way I have found it explained in multiple places is that the
> backups only get updated as a consequence of an actual userspace
> interaction. So you have to run fsck or at least change settings in
> tune2fs, for instance, or resize2fs ... then all the backups get
> updated.

Exactly.  Changing the filesystem with tune2fs or resize2fs requires
that all of the backups be updated.

> The jury is still out on whether automated fscks - for those lunatics
> who haven't disabled them - update or not. There is conflicting
> information.

IIRC, a preen ( the automatic fsck at boot ) normally just sees that the
dirty flag is not set ( since the filesystem was cleanly unmounted,
right? ), and doesn't do anything else.  If there was an unclean
shutdown though, and a real fsck is run, then it updates the first
backup.



  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-13 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-08 14:51 RAID5 failure and consequent ext4 problems Luigi Fabio
2022-09-08 17:23 ` Phil Turmel
2022-09-09 20:32   ` Luigi Fabio
2022-09-09 21:01     ` Luigi Fabio
2022-09-09 21:48       ` Phil Turmel
2022-09-09 22:11         ` David T-G
2022-09-09 22:50         ` Luigi Fabio
2022-09-09 23:04           ` Luigi Fabio
2022-09-10  1:29             ` Luigi Fabio
2022-09-10 15:18               ` Phil Turmel
2022-09-10 19:30                 ` Luigi Fabio
2022-09-10 19:55                   ` Luigi Fabio
2022-09-10 20:12                     ` Luigi Fabio
2022-09-10 20:15                       ` Phil Turmel
2022-09-10 20:14                     ` Phil Turmel
2022-09-10 20:17                       ` Phil Turmel
2022-09-10 20:24                         ` Luigi Fabio
2022-09-10 20:54                           ` Luigi Fabio
2022-09-12 19:09                     ` Phillip Susi
2022-09-13  3:58                       ` Luigi Fabio
2022-09-13 12:47                         ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2022-09-12 19:06                 ` Phillip Susi
2022-09-13  4:02                   ` Luigi Fabio
2022-09-13 12:51                     ` Phillip Susi

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