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On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 02:51:54PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 04:51:49PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > > I'd still like to see a fsck -n run in the daily script on journaled =
file
> > > system. Usefull to detect corruption (the daily fsck -n has already p=
ointed
> > > me hardware problems before they became too bad).

Are you looking for hardware issues of file system issues? I'm confused.

> > I think a better solution to this is to run a background scrubber scrip=
t.=20
> > All you need to do is read data, you don't need to calculate bitmaps &=
=20
> > such. And it'd also be good to read raw data areas, not just metadata=
=20
> > areas.
> >=20
> > Such a tool would help with the reliability of RAID 5 systems and keep =
a=20
> > disk failure from turning into a fatal double error (finding a bad bloc=
k=20
> > when one disk is down).
>=20
> This would be good to have too, but it doesn't remplace a periodic consis=
tency
> check of the filesystem. In one case where this helped me, it was the
> drive which was returning bogus data sometimes (I suspect its internal
> cache memory was bad, or something like that). The system would end up=20
> panicing in the fileystem code, but the daily fsck showed the problem bef=
ore
> the panic occured.

The problem is that if the file system is live, you may always get issues.=
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A journaled file system will have them even more so than a non-journaled=20
one. So how do we tell one type of error from another in the complaints of=
=20
a screaming fsck -n?

While you may be able to tell the difference, I don't see how this step=20
will be helpful in general if we can't explain what to do to new=20
sysadmins.

Take care,

Bill


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