On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:57:22PM -0700, Fong Vang wrote:
> I would like to find how how xfs_check and xfs_repair do their work
> internally. I need to find answers to the following questions:
Read the source code - the answers are all there.
> a) assuming the amount of data is the same for file systems, does it take
> longer for xfs_check and xfs_repair to check/repair a file system with a lot
> more files than one that has fewer? Assuming two file systems are 1TB each
> completely filled. One of the file systems is filled with very large files
> while the other one is filled with very small files, does it take longer to
> check and repair the latter?
The obvious thing here is to try it and measure it. Or perhaps go download
the slides/video/audio from this talk:
http://linux.conf.au/programme/detail?TalkID=135
The slides:
http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/slides/135-fixing_xfs_faster.pdf
And that should answer your question.
> b) does xfs_check and repair check only the used blocks or does it check
> everything? I think there's a free list as well so I'm assuming it checks
> that list as well.
Pretty much everything is checked and/or repaired. If it is not, then that's
a bug.
Cheers,
Dave.
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Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
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