frank@contex.UUCP (Frank Perdicaro) (09/24/90)
We resell SGI hardware. Some of our customers run their 4D25s three shifts, all week. Occasionally, there will be some condition that causes a file system corruption. Our customers are generally too IRIX uninformed to understand or detect what has happened. As IRIX is currently constructed, fsck is run infrequently. It would be a great service to us, and probably some others, if some nice, somewhat standard interface, like /etc/chkconfig, could be used to enable or disable auto-fsck on restart. More specifically, a program could be written that explictly sets the dirty bit in the superblock for a specific filesystem. A wrapper could be written around this to call it for each file system in /etc/fstab as the system is going down. This process could be enabled|disables with a /etc/autoconfig alwaysfsck on|off. Yes, I could write this in a short period of time. I may yet. I would like to see SGI write and support it, esecially with the advent of logical volumes. ( Logical volumes are nice; they are easy to construct, faster than normal normal file systems, and generally large enough for real work. ) Does anybody else see this need? I am always happy to see my 3100s running fsck, and in my experience, it is run too infrequently on the 4d2x machines. For the underinformed owner/user, every bit helps. -- Frank E Perdicaro, Systems Admin, etc. Xyvision Design Systems LEGALIZE Guns, drugs and cash...today. 101 Edgewater Drive inhouse: frank@bugs Wakefield MA outhouse: contex!frank@uunet.uu.net 018801285