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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 11:55:13 -0700
From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cistron.nl>
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Subject: Re: implementing soft-updates
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On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 12:45:53PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> In article <20020408203515.B540@toy.ucw.cz>,
> Pavel Machek  <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:
> >How do you fix errors you find by such background fsck?
> 
> Theoretically I suppose you could use a writeable snapshot and then switch the
> fscked snapshot with the currently mounted fs.
>

Not if there were writes after the fsck.  You could probably do it if there were only
reads though.  If there were writes it would be based on a corrupted (to
whatever extent) filesystem.
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