From: Eric Sandeen Subject: Re: Mentor for a GSoC application wanted (Online ext2/3 filesystem checker) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:52:29 -0500 Message-ID: <480E884D.7010602@redhat.com> References: <20080419012952.GE25797@mit.edu> <20080419185603.GA30449@mit.edu> <480A42F6.2030005@redhat.com> <804dabb00804220954s67d56cacj89098d88697565aa@mail.gmail.com> <480E1A3F.9030103@redhat.com> <20080422213144.GW2775@webber.adilger.int> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Peter Teoh , Theodore Tso , Alexey Zaytsev , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Rik van Riel To: Andreas Dilger Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:46716 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755179AbYDWAyi (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:54:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080422213144.GW2775@webber.adilger.int> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Apr 22, 2008 12:02 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> Peter Teoh wrote: >>> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote: >>>> If you really just want to verify a snapshot of the fs at a point in >>>> time, surely there are simpler ways. If the device is on lvm, there's >>>> already a script floating around to do it in automated fasion. (I'd >>>> pondered the idea of introducing META_WRITE (to go with META_READ) and >>>> maybe lvm could do a "metadata-only" snapshot to be lighter weight?) >>> Can I know where is this script? Or if u cannot locate it, does it >>> have any resemblance to all the stuff mentioned below?. >> Google for "lvcheck" and find it buried in a thread "forced fsck >> (again?)" on the ext3-users list - I'm not sure if it has an upstream >> home anywhere yet... > > We thought the best place to put it would be in the lvm2 utilities, since > it is tied to LVM snapshots (and not really a particular filesystem). > > Eric, any chance you could pass the script over to the LVM folks at RH? > AFAIK, they are the official LVM/DM maintainers still (adopted as part of > Sistina and GFS). Sure, I'll see who I can bug :) -Eric