"D. Stimits" writes:
=> I had hoped it would at least comment on its thought about what is or
=> isn't consistent. I can't unmount the root partition, and so far am
=> unable to create any kind of boot medium other than a removable IDE hard
=> drive (the ultimate floppy).
If it could tell you anything useful it wouldn't be able to tell you if
it was accurate or not.
=> So I wanted a means to at least do *some* kind of test to see if things
=> have gone horribly wrong while it is still mounted, read-only. After
=> rebooting and having it forget all settings for all pci devices, I felt
=> there was a need.
The aim of the journalling in XFS is to stop the filesystem becoming
inconsistent. Therefore it's not something you should need to do often
(or I would hope ever!).
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