quotacheck speed

Dave Chinner david at fromorbit.com
Wed Feb 15 15:45:17 CST 2012


On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:39:10AM +0100, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 of February 2012, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote:
> > On Tuesday 14 of February 2012, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 07:09:50PM +0100, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote:
> > > > On Monday 13 of February 2012, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > > In what cases do you regularly run quotacheck when you did not do
> > > > > a repair first?
> > > > 
> > > > I don't initiate quotacheck manually. AFAIK internal xfs quotacheck
> > > > happens in two cases here:
> > > > 1) repair->mount
> > > > 2) filesystem has quotacheck done properly some time ago -> umount ->
> > > > mount-
> > > > 
> > > > >oops/reset/something like that happens while mounting -> new mount
> > > 
> > > So you'd like both quotacheck to be sped up and repair
> > > to do it as well? ;)
> > 
> > Well, 1) is happening much more often than 2) :-)
> 
> Oh, and one more scenario. Running system, sysrq u, s, b -> new boot, mount -> 
> quotacheck runs.
> 
> Does it need to run in such case?

That's no different to an unclean shutdown. I'm not sure why that
would trigger a quotacheck. Anything inthe log that might indicate
why it started a quotacheck?

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com



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