Re: New concept of ext3 disk checks

[Andi Kleen]

Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> writes:

> 4) If there were no errors detecting by the fsck run, run the command
> "tune2fs -C 0 -T now /dev/XXX" on the live filesystem.  This sets the
> mount count and last filesystem checked time to the appropriate values
> in the superblock.

Is it safe now to run tune2fs on a mounted busy fs? afaik it would
need at least support to quiescence the fs temporarily. Otherwise you 
have a race window where changes to the superblock could get lost.

-Andi

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