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Date:      Wed, 8 Sep 1999 10:57:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
To:        Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
Cc:        Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re:  The usage of MNT_RELOAD
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.96.990908105507.8730F-100000@marcy.nas.nasa.gov>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990908133020.21415B-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>

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On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote:

> 
> Does fsck have to run on a MOUNTED filesystem?  If so, your answer makes
> sense to me: if fsck modifies the on-disk copy of the superblock, it does
> not have to unmount and then remount the filesystem, it only need to
> reload the superlock for disk. 

I think it's more for the case where fsck has to run on a filesystem which
is mounted. It's better to fsck unmounted filesystems, but you don't
always have that option (say you want to fsck the fs with fsck on it :-)

Take care,

Bill



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