Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 16:53:55 -0800 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> To: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Background Fsck Message-ID: <200103300053.TAA27553@thunderer.cnchost.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Mar 2001 21:22:10 PST." <200103290522.VAA06966@beastie.mckusick.com>
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Dumb question time. Why would I want to run a background fsck on an active filesystem? One wouldn't mount an unsafe filesystem in the first place. Perhaps you are talking about background garbage collection on an active fs -- blocks and inodes not reachable from the root set of objects (root inode + freelist + superblock?) recovered lazily. If this is really what you have, wouldn't it make sense to call it something else (e.g. fsgc)? On a somewhat related note, I have always wondered if the current fsck algorithm can be significantly improved or if it is about as efficient as it can be (barring any peephole code improvements). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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