fsck strangeness

[Karol Kwiatkowski]

Ian Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Chris wrote:
>  > If its bad to run fsck on a mounted read,write then why does
>  > background fsck do it? or you talking about foreground fsck only?
> 
> Well I was referring to foreground fsck, and I still don't know why
> running it on a mounted fs is 'bad' when fsck runs in 'NO WRITE' mode
> anyway when it finds a fs is mounted, hence my query above.

Here's my understanding:

Mounted fs (rw) isn't in stable state, there may be some writes to it -
daemons, buffers flushes, etc. In this condition fsck can report
inconsistency. And fsck running in 'NO WRITE' won't help anyway :)

Cheers,

Karol

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Karol Kwiatkowski   <karol.kwiat at gmail dot com>
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