From: Green, Simon (SGreen@KRAFTEUROPE.COM)
Date: Thu Jan 23 2003 - 05:00:15 EST
Thanks - to John also; that makes sense and is reassuring.
Simon Green
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pSeries AIX Geek [mailto:aixgeek@YAHOO.COM]
> Sent: 23 January 2003 01:42
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: Reliability of fsck on mounted filesystems
>
>
> Not likely. If it is really messed up, it'll find the
> inconsistency and tell you. But, if the system is
> making changes while you're trying to verify the
> structure, it'll also complain.
>
> My feeling is:
>
> Mounted FS + fsck + NO errors -> FS is OK
> Mounted FS + fsck + ERRORS -> Unreliable
>
> So, an fsck on a mounted file system could tell you if
> the file system is OK, but not that it's bad. IMHO.
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