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Runtime filesystem consistency checking

Runtime filesystem consistency checking

Posted May 30, 2012 11:50 UTC (Wed) by aigarius (subscriber, #7329)
Parent article: Runtime filesystem consistency checking

Would it not be easier to have a low priority kernel thread that runs in the background and periodically checks the integrity of the whole filesystem? It could then both fix it and also do the defrag actions in a continuous way.

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