Re: ext3: bump mount count on journal replay

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > Currently, you get fsck "just to be sure" once every ~30 clean
> > mounts or ~30 hard shutdowns. I believe that hard shutdown is way more
> > likely to cause some disk corruption, so it would make sense to fsck
> > more often when system is hit by hard shutdown.
> > 
> > What about this patch?
> >
> > @@ -1484,9 +1485,11 @@
> >  	 * root first: it may be modified in the journal!
> >  	 */
> >  	if (!test_opt(sb, NOLOAD) &&
> > -	    EXT3_HAS_COMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT3_FEATURE_COMPAT_HAS_JOURNAL)) {
> > -		if (ext3_load_journal(sb, es))
> > -			goto failed_mount2;
> > +	    EXT3_HAS_COMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT3_FEATURE_COMPAT_HAS_JOURNAL)) { {
> > +		    mount_cost = 5;
> > +		    if (ext3_load_journal(sb, es))
> > +			    goto failed_mount2;
> > +	    }
> 
> AFAICS, this just means that if you have an ext3 filesystem
> (i.e. has_journal) that you will fsck 5x as often, not so great.  You
> should instead check for INCOMPAT_RECOVER instead of HAS_JOURNAL.

Oops, you are right. Updated patch is attached.

> Instead, you could change this to only increment the mount count after
> a clean unmount 20% of the time (randomly).  Since most people bitch
> about the full fsck anyways this is probably the better choice than
> increasing the frequency of checks and forcing the users to change the
> check interval to get the old behaviour.

Nice hack.... would that be acceptable?
									Pavel

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