On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 5:49 AM Adam Borowski wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 08:32:17PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > Package: btrfs-progs
> > Version: 5.15.1-1
> > Severity: important
>
> > As per the enclosed screenshot, btrfs-progs splatters its filesystem
> > checking message all over the place. It would be desirable to integrate
> > it with the util-linux fsck run that follows.
>
> btrfs, like all modern filesystems except for ext4, doesn't run fsck at
> mount time at all. And the reason ext4 does stopped make sense around the
> turn of the millenium, when every unsafe shutdown caused possible filesystem
> corruption, often catastrophic. Such automated fsck is a throwback to the
> ext2/ext/sysvfs times when it was a hail mary attempt to fix such damage.
>
> As btrfs devs believe that all regular checks are supposed to be done
> online, on a mounted filesystem, fsck.btrfs is not even a primary recovery
> tool, and as thus there's even less point in running fsck at mount time.
>
> Thus, I'm not going to add any such checks, sorry.
It would be a good idea to actually read the bug report before replying.
Your reply doesn't address the issue AT ALL. It addresses an entirely
different matter.
Martin-Éric
