best practices using LVM and e2fsck

[Tom Metro]

Derek Martin wrote:
> Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>> 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.
>
> From what I've read, it generates a lot of I/O (as one would expect)...

With Linux software RAID you can actually reduce the priority of the
process performing the "scrub" so that the performance impact is not
noticeable. Perhaps the same can be done with ZFS.

 -Tom

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