On Jan 8, 2008 8:40 PM, Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rik van Riel wrote: > > Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Has there been some thought about an incremental fsck? > > > > > > You know, somehow fencing a sub-dir to do an online fsck? > > > > Search for "chunkfs" > > Sure, and there is TileFS too. > > But why wouldn't it be possible to do this on the current fs infrastructure, > using just a smart fsck, working incrementally on some sub-dir?
Several data structures are file system wide and require finding every allocated file and block to check that they are correct. In particular, block and inode bitmaps can't be checked per subdirectory. http://infohost.nmt.edu/~val/review/chunkfs.pdf -VAL -VAL -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
