On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 01:24:22PM -0700, mike wrote:
> Are there Linux equivalents for the XFS filesystem for chkdsk (fsck
> -n seemed like the only possibility and it does not work) or defrag?
yes and no
xfs_repair can detect and repair damage for file-systems which are
*not* in use
xfs_fsr tries to reduce the fragmention of files
there are not really the sane and windows chkdsk or defrag though
> Perhaps the way XFS runs, defrag is useless/not required.
file fragmentation shouldn't be a big issue with the exception of a a
few applications / usage patterns (p2p applications are actually make
this hard but that's true for all filesystems pretty much)
> But it would be nice to be able to check filesystem consistency
> (while it's mounted, so it'd be read-only checking obviously)
can't really be done reliably, i guess you could snapshot, clone and
check the clone, but it's really a hack
> before something happens or while it's not in the process of booting
> the machine.
most people don't need to check the fs whilst it's mounted,
file-system problems shouldn't occur that often
if they are, something is wrong and it should be fixed
--cw
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