Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout-2.0.0 surprises
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:52:00
Message-Id: 1208458266.2625.2.camel@gondolin.altum.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout-2.0.0 surprises by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 Am Donnerstag, den 17.04.2008, 20:36 +0200 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
2 > On Donnerstag, 17. April 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
3 > > Am Donnerstag, den 17.04.2008, 17:23 +0200 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
4 > > > fsck runs with the -p option. -p for prune. But xfs does not now the
5 > > > -p option
6 > >
7 > > Just set fsck to 0 in fstab for xfs volumes.
8
9 > no, the thing is, -p for 'automatic check&repair' is just wrong. -a would be
10 > better. Because -a is understood by a lot more fscks.
11 >
12 > -p as prune/automatic repair is only understood by ext2/3 and reiserfsck.
13 > -a is there for a reason. A good one.
14
15 Not using fsck for xfs also has a reason. A good one. From "man
16 fsck.xfs":
17
18 XFS is a journaling filesystem and performs recovery at mount(8) time if
19 necessary, so fsck.xfs simply exits with a zero exit status.
20
21 So whatever option you give to it, it doesn't matter.
22
23 Bye...
24
25 Dirk

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