linux-kernel - Re: [RFD] Incremental fsck

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <200801090740.12989.a1426z@gawab.com>
Date:	Wed, 9 Jan 2008 07:40:12 +0300
From:	Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>
To:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFD] Incremental fsck

Rik van Riel wrote:
> Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com> wrote:
> > Has there been some thought about an incremental fsck?
> >
> > You know, somehow fencing a sub-dir to do an online fsck?
>
> Search for "chunkfs"

Sure, and there is TileFS too.

But why wouldn't it be possible to do this on the current fs infrastructure, 
using just a smart fsck, working incrementally on some sub-dir?


Thanks!

--
Al

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/