:I know it's not the answer, it's just related question: do you know
:perhaps of any initiatives (except XFS) that could significantly shorten
:time it takes fsck to check big filesystems, let's say 64GB? As it is now,
:it's almost unbearable. I naively thought softupdates would (almost)
:eliminate the need to do fsck...
:
:Andrzej Bialecki
Eventually Kirk is planning for softupdates to allow you to run a special
version of fsck in the background to clean up the block bitmap on a live
filesystem. The time frame for this project is not known.
Another possibility would be to mark individual cylinders clean/dirty
to reduce the amount of work fsck must do on a normal filesystem. It
would be a pretty hefty project for someone to take on, though.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
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