Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:34:57 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck_y_enable: use -C Message-ID: <4A240331.1000803@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4A23F4B8.7000002@freebsd.org> References: <4A23D5A4.6020009@icyb.net.ua> <4A23F4B8.7000002@freebsd.org>
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Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 01/06/2009 16:20 Andriy Gapon said the following: >> What about the following patch? >> I believe that the idea behind fsck_y_enable is to try to make unattended systems >> with rw filesystems as recoverable as possible at the cost of potential damage to >> the data. The new "-C" option should not interfere with this goal, but should >> reduce recovery time, because currently fsck -y checks *all* filesystems from >> fstab, even those that are ro or clean: >> >> -C Check if the “clean” flag is set in the superblock and skip file >> system checks if file system was properly dismounted and marked >> clean. >> > > One potential issue that I've just thought of is that fsck_msdosfs doesn't seem to > support this option (even in a dummy way), so it would be a problem for those who > have msdos filesystems in fstab and also have fsck_y_enable. I'm a bit concerned that we keep the current option as it is, but I would support adding an fsck_y_enable_flags option to allow people to pass -C if they are sure it will work in their environment. Doug
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