From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268791AbUHLUv3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:51:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268777AbUHLUuv (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:50:51 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:40917 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268755AbUHLUsq (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:48:46 -0400 Subject: Re: New concept of ext3 disk checks From: Alan Cox To: otto.wyss@orpatec.ch Cc: "'linux-kernel'" In-Reply-To: <411BAFCA.92217D16@orpatec.ch> References: <411BAFCA.92217D16@orpatec.ch> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1092339980.22362.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 20:46:21 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Iau, 2004-08-12 at 18:58, Otto Wyss wrote: > The advantage of such a concept are rather obvious, desktop systems > don't have to use ridiculous high check interval values or disable > checks altogether and server systems may run forever. Also checks may be > done first on the written disk sectors. On an average loaded system, > this way malfunctioning software are detected within minutes and > hardware possibly within days, a rather high improvement to the current > detection time of sometimes months. I think it would indeed be a good project. If anyone has patches please send them along to the linux-fsdevel list