linux-kernel - Re: [RFD] Incremental fsck

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Message-ID: <20080109094412.73f3249c@cuia.boston.redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 9 Jan 2008 09:44:12 -0500
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>
Cc:	"Valerie Henson" <val.henson@...il.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFD] Incremental fsck

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 14:52:14 +0300
Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com> wrote:

> Ok, but let's look at this a bit more opportunistic / optimistic.

You can't play fast and loose with data integrity.

Besides, if we looked at things optimistically, we would conclude
that no fsck will be needed, ever :)
 
> > http://infohost.nmt.edu/~val/review/chunkfs.pdf

You will really want to read this paper, if you haven't already.

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