-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/29/15 8:59 PM, Qu Wenruo wrote: > > > Jeff Mahoney wrote on 2015/11/28 11:52 -0500: On 11/23/15 11:02 > PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: >>>> Hey. >>>> >>>> Short question since that came up on debian-devel. >>>> >>>> Now that btrfs check get's more and more useful, are the >>>> developers going to recommend running it periodically on >>>> boot (of course that wouldn't work right now, as it would >>>> *always* check)? > > Running fsck on boot is a holdover from an era where non-journaling > file systems were the norm. It persists in the ext* world mostly > due to inertia, but it shouldn't be run on boot with ext3 or ext4 > either. As Eric noted, fsck.xfs is a no-op. We have something > similar for btrfs and have no intention of ever running fsck on > boot with btrfs except in the case of a mount failure of the root > file system. > >>>> Plus... is btrfs check (without any arguments) >>>> non-desctructive, or are there corner-cases where it may >>>> lead to any changes on the devices? > > I haven't reviewed it in detail, but a quick glance makes it look > like it will, minimally, create transactions even in check-only > mode. > >> This seems interesting. > >> Any clue to enhance?
My glance wasn't close enough. We only start a transaction after we check and repair is enabled. - -Jeff - -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJWXKM2AAoJEB57S2MheeWynW4QAJBHbn8Wk+z4hRVfdtg2J6Ot v3HMaI3kto0Pg1fi87pQKJd3ET/p1ovdTQr2awCBr9hS3Pe5cPGF8Giv+LstWW5G LWWDaZDYqIJOGx69cwgiYIHxzMf/xn3xoovkrc63b8XjiZa3kUgMbb0cxtnNpXGE 2pa0das4ePZQ54OEfJvOdtdAhwMot1CV9UQaPm1DVJ8eQLAIvQKo4TFtv2y7FlNk eVfqcK2rM0SHmrx1IcHtd6EBG7yK0zCqPiFLBEU8Zkx3dFDTqsrsa1F2Vgnu7Pm8 LUZekSIUarqQcmM6xZpuZdA+7aOJ2pcCx2aoaYe34QK6U1YHD/Tb+tJNusMMUUdp z/0NjKmj4ONasbZ9ttZWg4FdDi2eVIRSZ7mYxSv6Gblo7iU/k8WSCzr/VZrnMzXG idEc9hUUykWdDLYJ7q6EP3/2rApjw/lxLD7peX/+ew9v9ddISbCI+qWO/+ocnPkH 0+v/FkWMFEoaZL5yRkJLfAPNnT4cGEu5n3hjy5Pgxc+1D+eZU+0EtR+0kd8iO/LH +qrz9RcVLKnPk3dMP6bAznqWz/pmry213AFRl4kTJsv5XDt9oSz4BmhKGU+zG+v6 JPXme3Fl/8GSaRVzTbQ+ALC5vxBL8oFQaV9jY8GA8d24dSXWqDYFLvIjtUNek/r2 gT7Z2612ZTceYX4oFOuk =32+d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
