Quiescent filesystems marked with EXT2_VALID_FS while still mounted?

[Andreas Dilger]

Fuzzy Fox writes:
> David Woodhouse <dwmw2 en infradead.org> wrote:
> > I've lost count of the times I've watched my box fsck huge partitions
> > that it hadn't even touched before the crash - not even for an atime
> > update. 
> 
> In such a case (filesystems that it would be nice to have available, but
> rarely get touched or examined), you may with to consider an autofs
> solution.

This is what ext2 will fix instantly.  If there are no outstanding journal
transactions for a filesystem (i.e. quiescent filesystem), fsck time is
basically zero for a filesystem no matter how big it is.  No point in
hacking something new in at this time for a problem that has already been
solved, IMHO.

Cheers, Andreas
-- 
Andreas Dilger  \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto,
                 \  would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/               -- Dogbert


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