best practices using LVM and e2fsck

[blu-Z8efaSeK1ezqlBn2x/YWAg at public.gmane.org (Edward Ned Harvey)]

> From: discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org [mailto:discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org] On
> Behalf Of Stephen Goldman
> 
>     I am afraid if I "need" to reboot- which I don't for see and e2fsck
> kicks off it will take a long time to bring up the server.
> 
>     Is it a good idea to plan service outages to run -e2fsck on the
> mounts beforehand. What do others do ?

This might not be helpful.  I'm replying to the question "what do others
do."  I never use large filesystems (large numbers of files/directories) on
linux.  I do all of this on solaris/opensolaris with ZFS.  The ability to
scrub a filesystem while it's mounted and in use seems like such a brainless
obvious feature.

Whenever my linux systems do fsck themselves, I just let it run.  Since my
filesystems are not huge, they don't take too long.