fsck.xfs proposed improvements

Andi Kleen andi at firstfloor.org
Wed Apr 22 16:45:11 CDT 2009


Mike Ashton <mike at fysh.org> writes:

> With badly behaved hardware,
> which seem prevalent, or any bugs which do get into xfs we could
> actually end up with xfs being less fault tolerant and less reliable
> in general use than other filesystems, which would be a bit of a
> shame.

Most Linux file systems are not very fault tolerant in this sense;
e.g. on ext3 you have have to press return and accept lots of scary
messages to get through fsck.

-Andi
 

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