Comments on: HAMMER2 and fsck for review https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/09/24/hammer2-and-fsck-for-review/ A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Thu, 26 Sep 2019 07:35:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 By: Anon2 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/09/24/hammer2-and-fsck-for-review/comment-page-1/#comment-488367 Thu, 26 Sep 2019 07:35:55 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=23540#comment-488367 @Anonymous

at least AWS checks the underlying storage for you ( -> https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/monitoring-volume-status.html )

So running fsck is considered harmful https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/45422/should-i-run-fsck-on-boot-for-an-amazon-ec2-image

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/09/24/hammer2-and-fsck-for-review/comment-page-1/#comment-488366 Wed, 25 Sep 2019 23:35:52 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=23540#comment-488366 How spinning up a new compute node on an IaaS service like AWS, Google Cloud etc – should the first thing you do is run fsck to ensure you were provisioned a compute node with a bad disk?

I know with cheaper cloud services they get super aggressive in reusing repaired hard drives.

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