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XFS is not for the masses

Posted Apr 26, 2006 21:43 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: XFS is not for the masses by hmh
Parent article: Filesystems (ext3, reiser, xfs, jfs) comparison on Debian Etch (Debian Administration)

Ah well, with early userspace it's easy to fsck before mounting /, and when early userspace lands for everyone, hopefully there'll be a fsck in there, or klibc will be capable enough for e2fsprogs's fsck...

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Posted Apr 26, 2006 21:54 UTC (Wed) by hmh (subscriber, #3838) [Link]

You can fsck / with ext2/ext3 just fine. It is XFS' utter useless fsck semanthics (do nothing) which are trouble. You need xfs_repair in the early/repair userland to deal with that.

I'd be much better if XFS' (and anyone else also doing this) would just stop with the impress-the-management-with-lies politics and implement fsck as it is meant to be implemented, instead of as a NOP.

XFS is not for the masses

Posted Apr 27, 2006 6:23 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Why not wrap up xfs_repair with a fsck wrapper? (I thought someone had done that, actually.)

XFS is not for the masses

Posted Apr 27, 2006 12:02 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

There is something unpleasant about fscking *any* live filesystem to me: the 'recommend reboot' return code from e2fsck is a symptom of this unpleasant special case. Well, now we can zap it :)