On Jan 3, 2013, at 1:08 PM, Zach Brown <zab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> 1. Would btrfsck be the appropriate program to run at bootup? If it >>> is, with what parameters? >> >> No, it's not necessary to run an fs checker on every boot. You can >> either turn off the checks in fstab, or symlink /sbin/fsck.btrfs to >> /bin/true. > > For what it's worth, I gather that the XFS guys used to do the latter > and that it broke something. Somewhere. I have no idea what. > Yeah, lost in the mists of time by now. Seems like maybe by now system installers should set up fstab correctly for a journaling ds, but since ext[34] wants boot-time fsck despite journaling, maybe it's best to provide a fsck.$FS even if it's a no-op. > Hence fsck.xfs(8) which has perhaps the greatest description in its man > page. > \o/ -Eric > - z > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
