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From: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>
To: Linda Walsh <xfs@tlinx.org>
Cc: xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: xfs.fsck change that is unhelpful
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:43:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100815224341.GA9438@citd.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C674AE8.7030107@tlinx.org>

On 14.08.2010 19:03, Linda Walsh wrote:
>
>
> Dave Chinner wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 01:48:01PM -0700, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
>>> Some time ago, when I upgraded a system, I ran into problems when
>>> it hit a file system that was offline.  It wasn't a critical
>>> partition, so it normally wouldn't have been an issue, but somewhere
>>> along the line
>>> someone mangled fsck.xfs.
>>
>> fsck.xfs is behaving identically to e2fsck when presented with an
>> invalid block device - it exits with an error of 8, which is defined
>> as "operational error" in the e2fsck man page.
> ---
> 	That may be fine for the ext2 fs, but I am asserting that in actual
> practice, with xfs, it does more harm than good.

I would suggest using autofs, so that you can keep fstab to an absolut 
minimum.

Except for devices related to booting, i personally mount everything 
either with autofs or manually(In that case it's normaly a one-shot 
thing).

In my case that are all "non boot related" devices, DVD-drive, network 
filesystems, some "tmpfs"es for playing, removable-devices, etc.





Bis denn

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-15 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-14 20:48 xfs.fsck change that is unhelpful Linda A. Walsh
2010-08-15  0:52 ` Dave Chinner
2010-08-15  2:03   ` Linda Walsh
2010-08-15 18:54     ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2010-08-15 22:43     ` Matthias Schniedermeyer [this message]
2010-08-16  1:55     ` Dave Chinner
2010-08-16  2:26       ` Linda Walsh
2010-08-16  9:44         ` Stan Hoeppner

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