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Date:      Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:04:43 -0500
From:      Craig Boston <craig@feniz.gank.org>
To:        Teufel <bsd@kuehlbox.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: gjournal and Softupdates
Message-ID:  <20060912220442.GA75667@nowhere>
In-Reply-To: <45070EE6.3090104@kuehlbox.de>
References:  <45066E19.2040405@kuehlbox.de> <ee5vat$fcb$1@sea.gmane.org> <ygfirjto0z2.fsf@dominion.borderworlds.dk> <ee64n4$it$1@sea.gmane.org> <ygfac55nwyd.fsf@dominion.borderworlds.dk> <45070EE6.3090104@kuehlbox.de>

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On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 09:47:50PM +0200, Teufel wrote:
> Well, thats why i actually don't find journaling filesystems very sexy. 
> So the question is, if it is still safe to use fsck on a gjournal 
> enabled FS ?

Well, if you just want to check, you can take a snapshot and run fsck -n
on it.  That will at least tell you if there's any problems that need to
be dealt with.

Running fsck on a journal-enabled UFS should be safe modulo the usual
requirements (not mounted, which probably means single-user mode).

Craig



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