[Discuss] xfs repair
Stephen Adler
adler at stephenadler.com
Mon Sep 22 21:16:01 EDT 2014
Guys,
I'm preparing to building several multi terabyte file systems using XFS.
On the order of 5-10 terabytes. I've done a bit of searching on the web
to find out what is the customary way to check xfs file systems. with
the other file systems, you would get a forced fsck ever N number of
mounts thus repairing any "gunk" in the file system. With XFS, no fsck
is performed. fsck.xfs will return passed and not execute. Thus one
needs to run xfs_repair every now and then I suppose. So my question is
what is the customary frequency one runs xfs_repair on their xfs file
systems. Every 6 months? Do it via a cron job every week making sure you
can dismount the file system first and then remount it when done? It's
been beaten into me over the years I've managed linux/unix systems that
fscks must be done with some kind of periodicity otherwise suffer from
file corruption due to bit decay I suppose.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers. Steve.
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