Re: been a while before i could get back to this..

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 11:11:46PM -0800, l.a walsh wrote:
> Hmmm....
>       xfsdump seems to be running now ....

Thats good to hear.

>       So 1) Maybe xfsdump or the 'getbulkstat' operation should
> be slightly more fault tolerant?  Seems like shutting down
> the file system wasn't the most informative action to take.

*nod* ... this could possibly be made like some of the directory
code which doesn't shutdown, but returns errors back out.

>       Perhaps more important (2): it would be REAL helpful if
> either xfs_repair or xfs_check would return an indication
> that there is a problem on a mounted filesystem
> (not necessarily correct the problem, though that would be ideal),
> but at least give me a way of determining that there is a
> problem so I can know that I should do a repair (hopefully before
> the system is taken down by an xfsdump).

cheers.

--
Nathan