[master/f20] btrfs and xfs do not support fsck or dump at boot time (#862871)

Brian C. Lane bcl at redhat.com
Fri Dec 6 03:04:29 UTC 2013


On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 09:52:37AM +0100, Vratislav Podzimek wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-11-27 at 11:54 -0800, Brian C. Lane wrote:
> > From: "Brian C. Lane" <bcl at redhat.com>
> > 
> > ---
> >  blivet/formats/fs.py | 4 ----
> >  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/blivet/formats/fs.py b/blivet/formats/fs.py
> > index 43f9d44..103717e 100644
> > --- a/blivet/formats/fs.py
> > +++ b/blivet/formats/fs.py
> > @@ -1030,8 +1030,6 @@ class BTRFS(FS):
> >      _linuxNative = True
> >      _maxLabelChars = 256
> >      _supported = True
> > -    _dump = True
> > -    _check = True
> >      _packages = ["btrfs-progs"]
> >      _minSize = 256
> >      _maxSize = 16 * 1024 * 1024
> > @@ -1191,8 +1189,6 @@ class XFS(FS):
> >      _formattable = True
> >      _linuxNative = True
> >      _supported = True
> > -    _dump = True
> > -    _check = True
> >      _packages = ["xfsprogs"]
> >      _infofs = "xfs_db"
> >      _defaultInfoOptions = ["-c", "\"sb 0\"", "-c", "\"p dblocks\"",
> Is this really still true? I've just moved my Fedora 20 from an HDD to
> an SSD and from ext4 to xfs yesterday and boot time fsck on xfs worked
> well (even if I didn't expect it to). Also, now that xfs is the default
> filesystem for RHEL I think it would have to support that.

Yes. According to the manpage the fsck.xfs that is run at boot time is a
noop. It does the checking at mount time instead.

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