On Thursday 06 January 2005 22:48, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is mostly relevant for systems that don't take regular backups. If > you do (and for the sake of your customers, I hope that is the case), > the extra precaution isn't really necessary, and probably a bad idea if > the cost involved (in terms of downtime) is too high.
One thing that has been suggested is to use LVM and fsck a snapshot. If fsck on a snapshot LV indicates that nothing other than journal replay is really needed then you can keep running. If it finds some more serious problem then you can consider other options. I don't know of anyone actually implementing this due to fsck not being painful enough. It would be interesting to read some reports of someone actually doing this in the field. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
