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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@redhat.com>,
	xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs_scrub_all.timer: don't run if /var/lib/xfsprogs is readonly
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 08:22:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250122072247.GA32211@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250122071829.GW3557553@frogsfrogsfrogs>

On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 11:18:29PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Eh, it's mostly to shut up systems where even /var/lib is readonly.

What are those systems?  They must still provide some place writable
for semi-persistant data, so we should look for that?

> IIRC systemd's volatile mode isn't quite that silly, but it'd be nice
> to avoid xfs_scrub_all repeatedly failing every time the timer fires.
> 
> OTOH maybe a better solution is just to run scrub in media scan mode if
> the media scan stamp file can't be opened for writing?

Or not run it at all?  Either way I'd like to understand what causes
this.


  reply	other threads:[~2025-01-22  7:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-01-22  2:00 [PATCH] xfs_scrub_all.timer: don't run if /var/lib/xfsprogs is readonly Darrick J. Wong
2025-01-22  6:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-01-22  7:18   ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-01-22  7:22     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2025-01-22 19:34       ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-01-27  8:57         ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-01-27 16:03           ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-01-27 21:36 ` [PATCH v2] " Darrick J. Wong

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