Online fsck may take longer than offline fsck...
Signed-off-by: Gou Hao <gouhao@uniontech.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <
20251105013506.358-1-gouhao@uniontech.com>
This means that scrub cannot take *any* shortcuts to save time, because doing
so could lead to concurrency problems.
In other words, online fsck is not a complete replacement for offline fsck, and
-a complete run of online fsck may take longer than online fsck.
+a complete run of online fsck may take longer than offline fsck.
However, both of these limitations are acceptable tradeoffs to satisfy the
different motivations of online fsck, which are to **minimize system downtime**
and to **increase predictability of operation**.