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From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
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Subject: Re: [kris@obsecurity.org: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc]
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:From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
:Subject: Re: [kris@obsecurity.org: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc]
:Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 20:44:31 -0700 (PDT)
:
:>     I have to say, just IMHO, that as much as I like the concept of a
:>     background fsck, I will never ever in my life use the feature.  I'll
:
:Well, there are fscks and there are fscks.  It's my impression that
:*all* a background fsck on a snapshot will ever do is return free
:blocks to the freelist.  That's it.  It won't do any one of the dozens
:of other crazy things you've probably seen fsck do in cleaning up a
:badly scrogged filesystem and hence your fear, unless I'm smoking some
:unusually strong crack, is likely unwarranted.
:
:- JKordan

    The problem isn't what the background fsck does... it's what happens
    when a corrupted filesystem is mounted r/w and you only find out later
    that fsck couldn't handle it.

						-Matt


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