forced fsck (again?)

Bryan Kadzban bryan at kadzban.is-a-geek.net
Thu Jan 24 12:20:31 UTC 2008


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Damian Menscher wrote:
> I also have a newbie question: does the fsck of a snapshot really
> catch everything that might be wrong with the drive, or are there
> other failure modes that only a real fsck would catch?

AFAIK, it catches everything.  The LVM2 snapshot is effectively a copy
of the FS at the time the snapshot was taken.

Of course, that could be wrong, but I don't believe so...
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