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Re: Bug#714433: debian-edu: missing fsck.xfs if XFS filesystem is choosen during disk partitioning



Quoting Christian Kuelker (2013-06-30 13:07:10)
> On 06/30/2013 08:27 AM, Simone Rossetto wrote:
> > 
> > Il 29/06/2013 12:07, Petter Reinholdtsen ha scritto:
> >> Why do you want to use xfs? In other words, why should we support 
> >> xfs?
> > 
> > Actually there isn't a real reason...
> [..]
> 
> Not sure if you should support, but here is on reason why I am using 
> XFS as root fs since many years now on Debian (not Debian-Edu). The 
> reason for me is, that it need no fsck on startup also very much more 
> unlikely to break in case of power loss. I think you search 
> automatically for alternatives if you maintain servers without 
> console, monitor or thousands of them.

What does not need fsck is journaling filesystem, which includes XFS but 
also ext3fs and ext4fs.

What does need fsck is (for non-journaling filesystems) interrupted 
writes but also (for journaling filesystems as well) other causes of 
corruption.

I suspect your description of XFS use implies running xfs_check only 
manually - i.e. comparable to "tune2fs -c 0 ..." for ext3fs and ext4fs.


Nice article on fsck here: https://lwn.net/Articles/248180/


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