Re: online fsck

2005-05-28 Thread Vladimir Saveliev
Hello On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 03:26, marco wrote: E.Gryaznova wrote: Hello. reiserfsck can check reiserfs filesystem mounted read-only. Running 'fsck.reiserfs --check -y /dev/part' will do the trick. The equivalent for ext3 and other filesystems is 'fsck -n /dev/part', the ext3

Re: online fsck

2005-05-27 Thread marco
btinsley wrote: What i'm looking for is a check on a reiserfs filesystem that is mounted read-write. Many modern filesystems, especially those on NAS devices, can run periodic background consistency checks on filesystems with almost zero impact on performance. Some devices are reportedly

Re: online fsck

2005-05-27 Thread Philippe Gramoullé
Hello, On Tue, 24 May 2005 22:02:20 -0500 btinsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | What i'm looking for is a check on a reiserfs filesystem that is | mounted read-write. Many modern filesystems, especially those on NAS | devices, can run periodic background consistency checks on filesystems

Re: online fsck

2005-05-27 Thread Yiannis Mavroukakis
Philippe Gramoullé wrote: Hello, On Tue, 24 May 2005 22:02:20 -0500 btinsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | What i'm looking for is a check on a reiserfs filesystem that is | mounted read-write. Many modern filesystems, especially those on NAS | devices, can run periodic background consistency

Re: online fsck

2005-05-27 Thread Markus T�rnqvist
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 10:32:14AM +0100, Yiannis Mavroukakis wrote: Then Hans should setup a paypal account for donations. I'd gladly give what I can spare, and I think so would a lot of people here. http://namesys.com/support.html I've donated that way and it's worked every time. Maybe some

Re: online fsck

2005-05-27 Thread David Masover
good features, and they are all something I would rather donate money towards than an online fsck. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBQpekPHgHNmZLgCUhAQK5pxAAkmVS/NzA2xDMuiNH2LCBSaUpGl/nbMzP

Re: online fsck

2005-05-27 Thread btinsley
I'd rather donate for a reiser4 online repacker. By the time something's fsck'd, so to speak, I'd rather take it offline and possibly pull in backups. But a repacker (even an offine one) and a resizer (even an offline one) are two things that we even have in the Linux ntfs-tools, and it's

Re: online fsck

2005-05-24 Thread E.Gryaznova
Hello. reiserfsck can check reiserfs filesystem mounted read-only. Thanks, Lena btinsley wrote: Is there or was there a plan to support running reiserfsck on a mounted v3 filesystem (just a check, not a fix or rebuild)? I seem to remember this being mentioned here at some point in time, but I

Re: online fsck

2005-05-24 Thread marco
E.Gryaznova wrote: Hello. reiserfsck can check reiserfs filesystem mounted read-only. Running 'fsck.reiserfs --check -y /dev/part' will do the trick. The equivalent for ext3 and other filesystems is 'fsck -n /dev/part', the ext3 version detects that it is mounted rw, and does a readonly

Re: online fsck

2005-05-24 Thread btinsley
What i'm looking for is a check on a reiserfs filesystem that is mounted read-write. Many modern filesystems, especially those on NAS devices, can run periodic background consistency checks on filesystems with almost zero impact on performance. Some devices are reportedly running these checks

online fsck

2005-05-23 Thread btinsley
Is there or was there a plan to support running reiserfsck on a mounted v3 filesystem (just a check, not a fix or rebuild)? I seem to remember this being mentioned here at some point in time, but I was unable to find it in the mailing list archive. Thanks!

Re: online fsck

2004-04-22 Thread Marcelo Pacheco
On Thursday 22 April 2004 12:45, Nikita Danilov wrote: Chris Dukes writes: On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 04:24:02PM +0200, Jure Pe??ar wrote: On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:34:14 -0400 Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Online check is easy, just use lvm or evms to make a snapshot and

Re: online fsck

2004-04-22 Thread Chris Dukes
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 07:45:08PM +0400, Nikita Danilov wrote: Chris Dukes writes: It is worth mentioning that FreeBSD supposedly has an online in the background fsck for UFS2. Wait a second. Assuming that kernel code has no bugs, the only corruption that may happen when

Re: online fsck

2004-04-22 Thread Hans Reiser
Jure Pear wrote: On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:24:09 +0100 Chris Dukes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is worth mentioning that FreeBSD supposedly has an online in the background fsck for UFS2. Yes ... such online fsck is the only major feature i miss on Linux. (my boss is pushing Veritas on me

Re: online fsck

2004-04-22 Thread Hans Reiser
Chris Mason wrote: On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 09:00, Jure Pear wrote: Hi all, Is it theoretically posible? Like, does it need a drastic redesing of reiserfs or just sufficient $$ directed to the team to be implemented? Because i think that reiserfsck --check in 12h + --rebuild-tree in 18h is

Re: online fsck

2004-04-22 Thread Chris Mason
On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 13:51, Hans Reiser wrote: Chris Mason wrote: On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 09:00, Jure Pear wrote: Hi all, Is it theoretically posible? Like, does it need a drastic redesing of reiserfs or just sufficient $$ directed to the team to be implemented? Because i

Re: online fsck

2004-04-22 Thread Hans Reiser
Chris Mason wrote: On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 13:51, Hans Reiser wrote: Chris Mason wrote: On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 09:00, Jure Pear wrote: Hi all, Is it theoretically posible? Like, does it need a drastic redesing of reiserfs or just sufficient $$ directed to the team to be

Re: online fsck

2004-04-22 Thread Chris Dukes
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 10:51:12AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: Chris Mason wrote: Online check is easy, just use lvm or evms to make a snapshot and then check the snapshot. Requires that users use lvm before discovering the need for fsck, but, yes. What would be ideal would be some

Re: online fsck

2004-04-22 Thread Matthias Andree
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Jure Pe??ar wrote: Is it theoretically posible? It is actually implemented in the BSD kernels, for UFS. Look for softdep or softupdates. As for other file systems, when crashing while the write cache is enabled (unfortunately, it is in FreeBSD for instance), it can royally