On Thu, 06 May 2004 21:00:25 -0500 Randy Kelsoe <randykel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > John Thompson wrote: > > >>You should never run fsck on an XFS filesystem. XFS has xfs_repair, > >>which will try and repair corruption. > >> > >> > > > >Running fsck on an xfs filesystem shouldn't cause any problems. fsck > >will simply call fsck.xfs, which is functionally identical to the > >"true" program (ie, "do nothing, successfully"). See "man fsck.xfs" > >for details. > So what's the point? According to the original poster (Ow), he ran > fsck and it deleted a directory. It sounds like it DID do something; > something negative. fsck.xfs exists only because linux automatically runs fsck against all filesystems as part of the boot process. When fsck.xfs is run, it simply returns a successful message back to fsck so the boot process can continue. When the boot process subsequently mounts the xfs filesystem, xfs_check is run to determine if the filesystem is "dirty" and then the journal is played back and/or xfs_repair will be called to do the actual fixing. -- -John (john@xxxxxxxxxxx)
