Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:48:38 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: fsck_ffs patch testers wanted Message-ID: <20041001104748.T31631@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <200410010407.i91471ts042635@gw.catspoiler.org> References: <200410010407.i91471ts042635@gw.catspoiler.org>
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On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Don Lewis wrote: > On 30 Sep, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> >> Would you be willing to post a 4.x version of this, or send me one, that I >> can test, since I'm the one that seems lucky to get the "glacially slow" >> fsck's :( > > I was planning on posting a 4.x version sometime after I did the commit > to -CURRENT and it had time to get well exercised by the masses. My > plan is to allow about a month of testing between the commit to -CURRENT > and the MFC. > >> Also, some sort of "what I should be watching for" would be nice, if >> anything ... I've got my remote techs "trained" so that they can get me >> into single user mode so that I can watch fsck using ctl-t, so I can >> install this as a seperate fsck and manually test it as required ... > > Things to watch out for are fsck going berzerk and deleting all your > files. The behaviour should be the same as the unpatched version of > fsck other than the worst case time it takes to get through pass 4. > > I just cranked out the 4.x patch below. I've only given it some light > testing, mostly just running versions of fsck with and without the patch > in read-only mode (-n option) on the same file system and comparing the > fsck output. I've done this on a clean file system, and one with some > minor inconsistencies. I'm almost due for a crash, its been ~25days since the last one, so should be able to test it 'real soon now' :) ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
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