Hi,
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 11:05:53AM -0500, Russell Cattelan wrote:
>
> XFS doesn't actually try to detect file system inconstancies at mount
> time.
> (this would defeat quick recovery)
Neither does ext3. What the filesystem can do is to detect
inconsistencies at run time (eg. clearing a bit in an allocation
bitmap but finding it already clear, or finding illegal block mappings
in a file --- that sort of thing), and record in the superblock that
Bad Things have happened and a full consistency check is needed on
reboot. Only data corruption errors can lead to this.
> If at any time a live XFS file system detects and error XFS will
> immediately halt
> all IO to the device. It is then up to the administrator to do manual
> checks and
> or repairs.
Right, ext3 does too (in fact it gives you a per-fs option either to
suspend IO on error, or to do an immediate panic). In either case,
though, it marks the presence of the error in the superblock so that
after a reboot, the system knows that forced fsck is required.
--Stephen
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