[ale] Fwd: periodic fsck was Re: [patch] ext2/3: document conditions when reliable operation is possible

Brian Pitts brian at polibyte.com
Tue Nov 10 13:19:23 EST 2009


On 11/10/2009 08:46 AM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> Ted Tso would know far more that you or I, so if he recommends it I
> suspect it is a good plan.
> 
> The thread is at:
> 
> http://markmail.org/thread/2tu3brz74zuafxqm
> 
> The message at:
> 
> http://markmail.org/message/dn74kxsb7wigu643

This does seem like a good idea. To take advantage of it you need to
leave some free space for the snapshot in your volume group when you set
up your disks. I was going to setup the e2croncheck script [0] when I
realized the Fedora 11 installer didn't leave such space.

[0] http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2croncheck

-- 
All the best,
Brian Pitts


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