linux-ext4 - New service e2scrub

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Date:   Mon, 18 Mar 2019 12:24:55 +0100
From:   Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>
To:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: New service e2scrub_reap

Dear Ted, dear Darrick,

On Debian Sid/unstable, I noticed the new service `scrub/e2scrub_reap.service`
installed in the default target [1][2].

> E2fsprogs now has an e2scrub script which will allow e2fsck to be run on
> volumes that are mounted on an LVM device.  The e2scrub_all will find
> all ext* file systems and run them using e2scrub (if possible).

```
$ nl -ba scrub/e2scrub_reap.service.in
     1	[Unit]
     2	Description=Remove Stale Online ext4 Metadata Check Snapshots
     3	Documentation=man:e2scrub_all(8)
     4	
     5	[Service]
     6	Type=oneshot
     7	WorkingDirectory=/
     8	PrivateNetwork=true
     9	ProtectSystem=true
    10	ProtectHome=read-only
    11	PrivateTmp=yes
    12	AmbientCapabilities=CAP_SYS_ADMIN CAP_SYS_RAWIO
    13	NoNewPrivileges=yes
    14	User=root
    15	IOSchedulingClass=idle
    16	CPUSchedulingPolicy=idle
    17	ExecStart=@...t_sbindir@...scrub_all -A -r
    18	SyslogIdentifier=%N
    19	RemainAfterExit=no
    20	
    21	[Install]
    22	WantedBy=default.target
```

As this is installed in the default target, it increases the boot time of
my target system, which does not have any LVM volumes. Especially, as a
shell script is started, and on my system resources are scarce during
boot-up.

```
$ systemctl status -o short-precise e2scrub_reap.service
● e2scrub_reap.service - Remove Stale Online ext4 Metadata Check Snapshots
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/e2scrub_reap.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead) since Mon 2019-03-18 12:17:13 CET; 1min 1s ago
     Docs: man:e2scrub_all(8)
  Process: 447 ExecStart=/sbin/e2scrub_all -A -r (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 447 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Mar 18 12:17:08.223560 plumpsklo systemd[1]: Starting Remove Stale Online ext4 Metadata Check Snapshots...
Mar 18 12:17:13.996465 plumpsklo systemd[1]: e2scrub_reap.service: Succeeded.
Mar 18 12:17:13.996808 plumpsklo systemd[1]: Started Remove Stale Online ext4 Metadata Check Snapshots.
```

Reading the manual, the switch `-r` “removes e2scrub snapshots but do not
check anything”.

Does this have to be done during boot-up, or could it be done after the
default target was reached, or even during shutting down?

Kind regards,

Paul

[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git/tree/scrub
[2]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git/tree/doc/RelNotes/v1.45.0.txt

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