From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268866AbUHLXY6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 19:24:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268886AbUHLXY4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 19:24:56 -0400 Received: from zero.aec.at ([193.170.194.10]:24069 "EHLO zero.aec.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268880AbUHLXYj (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 19:24:39 -0400 To: "Theodore Ts'o" cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New concept of ext3 disk checks References: <2ssbz-jB-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <2swyz-3ny-13@gated-at.bofh.it> From: Andi Kleen Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 01:24:33 +0200 In-Reply-To: <2swyz-3ny-13@gated-at.bofh.it> (Theodore Ts'o's message of "Fri, 13 Aug 2004 00:50:07 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Theodore Ts'o writes: > 4) If there were no errors detecting by the fsck run, run the command > "tune2fs -C 0 -T now /dev/XXX" on the live filesystem. This sets the > mount count and last filesystem checked time to the appropriate values > in the superblock. Is it safe now to run tune2fs on a mounted busy fs? afaik it would need at least support to quiescence the fs temporarily. Otherwise you have a race window where changes to the superblock could get lost. -Andi