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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfs_check
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 09:21:11 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080527232111.GB3819@disturbed> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080527162605.GA30344@lst.de>

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 06:26:05PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> In the past we had quite a few cases where we told people to run
> xfs_repair -n instead of xfs_check.  I think that makes a lot of sense
> because xfs_repair -n generally gives output at least as useful as
> xfs_check if not more so and also is a lot faster.  Is there any reason
> why we shouldn't simply kill xfs_check and replaced it with a wrapper
> around xfs_repair?

xfs_repair doesn't yet check free space btrees - it simply
blows them away and rebuilds htem from scratch. Hence errors
in those btrees will go unreported. xfs_check will tell you
about errors in those trees.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-27 23:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-27 16:26 xfs_check Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-27 16:48 ` xfs_check Eric Sandeen
2008-05-27 16:50   ` xfs_check Chris Wedgwood
2008-05-27 16:55     ` xfs_check Eric Sandeen
2008-05-27 23:50       ` xfs_check Barry Naujok
2008-05-27 23:21 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2008-05-27 23:49 ` xfs_check Barry Naujok
2008-05-28  8:20 ` xfs_check Emmanuel Florac

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