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From: "Valerie Henson" <val.henson@gmail.com>
To: "Al Boldi" <a1426z@gawab.com>
Cc: "Rik van Riel" <riel@redhat.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFD] Incremental fsck
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 23:45:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <70b6f0bf0801082345vf57951ey642e35c3d6e5194f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801090740.12989.a1426z@gawab.com>

On Jan 8, 2008 8:40 PM, Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com> wrote:
> Rik van Riel wrote:
> > Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com> wrote:
> > > Has there been some thought about an incremental fsck?
> > >
> > > You know, somehow fencing a sub-dir to do an online fsck?
> >
> > Search for "chunkfs"
>
> Sure, and there is TileFS too.
>
> But why wouldn't it be possible to do this on the current fs infrastructure,
> using just a smart fsck, working incrementally on some sub-dir?

Several data structures are file system wide and require finding every
allocated file and block to check that they are correct.  In
particular, block and inode bitmaps can't be checked per subdirectory.

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~val/review/chunkfs.pdf

-VAL

-VAL

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-09  7:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-08 21:22 Al Boldi
2008-01-08 21:31 ` Alan
2008-01-09  9:16   ` Andreas Dilger
2008-01-12 23:55     ` Daniel Phillips
2008-01-08 21:41 ` Rik van Riel
2008-01-09  4:40   ` Al Boldi
2008-01-09  7:45     ` Valerie Henson [this message]
2008-01-09 11:52       ` Al Boldi
2008-01-09 14:44         ` Rik van Riel
2008-01-10 13:26           ` Al Boldi
2008-01-12 14:51         ` Theodore Tso
2008-01-13 11:05           ` Al Boldi
2008-01-13 17:19           ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-13 17:41             ` Alan Cox
2008-01-15 20:16               ` [Patch] document ext3 requirements (was Re: [RFD] Incremental fsck) Pavel Machek
2008-01-15 21:43                 ` David Chinner
2008-01-15 23:07                   ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-15 23:44                     ` Daniel Phillips
2008-01-16  0:15                       ` Alan Cox
2008-01-16  1:24                         ` Daniel Phillips
2008-01-16  1:36                           ` Chris Mason
2008-01-17 20:54                             ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-16 19:06                           ` Bryan Henderson
2008-01-16 20:05                             ` Alan Cox
2008-01-17  2:02                             ` Daniel Phillips
2008-01-17 21:37                               ` Bryan Henderson
2008-01-17 22:45                               ` Theodore Tso
2008-01-17 22:58                                 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-17 23:18                                 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-01-18  0:31                                   ` Bryan Henderson
2008-01-18 14:23                                     ` Theodore Tso
2008-01-18 15:16                                       ` [Patch] document ext3 requirements (was Re: [RFD] Incrementalfsck) linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2008-01-19 14:53                                         ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-18 15:26                                       ` [Patch] document ext3 requirements (was Re: [RFD] Incremental fsck) Ric Wheeler
2008-01-18 20:34                                         ` Jeff Garzik
2008-01-18 22:35                                           ` Bryan Henderson
2008-01-18 15:08                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-18 17:43                                       ` Bryan Henderson
2008-01-16 21:28                         ` Eric Sandeen
2008-01-16 11:51                       ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-16 12:20                         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-19 14:51                           ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-16 16:38                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-01-16  1:44                 ` Daniel Phillips
2008-01-16  3:05                   ` Rik van Riel
2008-01-17  7:38                     ` Andreas Dilger
2008-01-16 11:49                   ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-16 20:52                     ` Valerie Henson
2008-01-17 12:29                   ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2008-01-17 22:51                     ` Daniel Phillips
2008-01-15  1:04             ` [RFD] Incremental fsck Ric Wheeler
2008-01-14  0:22           ` Daniel Phillips
2008-01-09  8:04     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
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     [not found] ` <9JB3e-85S-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <9JDRm-4bR-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <9JHLl-2dL-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2008-01-11 14:20       ` Bodo Eggert
2008-01-12 10:20         ` Al Boldi

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