Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 10:57:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov> To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The usage of MNT_RELOAD Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.990908105507.8730F-100000@marcy.nas.nasa.gov> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990908133020.21415B-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
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On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > Does fsck have to run on a MOUNTED filesystem? If so, your answer makes > sense to me: if fsck modifies the on-disk copy of the superblock, it does > not have to unmount and then remount the filesystem, it only need to > reload the superlock for disk. I think it's more for the case where fsck has to run on a filesystem which is mounted. It's better to fsck unmounted filesystems, but you don't always have that option (say you want to fsck the fs with fsck on it :-) Take care, Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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