On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 01:25:35PM +0000, John Zakrzewski wrote: > Hi! We are using the k8 utils opensource > project(https://github.com/kubernetes/utils) and looking for your > thoughts on an issue where fsck is being run on every remount and if > this is necessary for journaling filesystems. Eric Sandeen's comments > here(https://github.com/kubernetes/utils/pull/132#issuecomment-605492335) > indicate it is not but wanted to verify with you that his statements > apply to ext4 as well. Ultimately I am looking for reassurance to > relax the need for fsck on mounts for ext4. I look forward to hearing > your thoughts and please don't hesitate to ask clarifying questions. > Thank you! Running fsck on any journalled filesystem shouldn't be necessary if they've stopped the practice of snapshotting unfrozen filesystems. But these days, maybe you /want/ to run fsck in dryrun mode to detect maliciously corrupt filesystem images before mounting them? --D > John Zakrzewski > Software Engineer > Azure Core > jozakrzewski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >
