XFS online filesystem scrubbing and repair [LWN.net]

XFS online filesystem scrubbing and repair

Posted May 16, 2018 17:11 UTC (Wed) by pj (subscriber, #4506)
Parent article: XFS online filesystem scrubbing and repair

Shouldn't this functionality be rolled into fsck, and not another wrapper program? What am I missing?

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XFS online filesystem scrubbing and repair

Posted May 16, 2018 19:28 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (4 responses)

fsck is just a frontend. Each filesystem has it's own fsck utility

Examples:
fsck.cramfs fsck.ext3 fsck.fat fsck.msdos fsck.xfs
fsck.btrfs fsck.ext2 fsck.ext4 fsck.minix fsck.vfat

XFS online filesystem scrubbing and repair

Posted May 16, 2018 21:58 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (3 responses)

Also, of course, scrubbing is *online*, unlike fsck. It's not really quite the same thing. (But dispatching from a fscrub utility to individual fscrub.* tools seems like a good idea to me too.)

XFS online filesystem scrubbing and repair

Posted May 17, 2018 4:20 UTC (Thu) by unixbhaskar (guest, #44758) [Link] (2 responses)

Yup. fscrub.* would be a good piece to have. :)

XFS online filesystem scrubbing and repair

Posted May 17, 2018 13:32 UTC (Thu) by ehiggs (guest, #90713) [Link] (1 responses)

fsscrub, surely.

XFS online filesystem scrubbing and repair

Posted May 17, 2018 15:15 UTC (Thu) by ju3Ceemi (subscriber, #102464) [Link]

A command which matches the "discard" feature (via fstrim) would be nice