On 04/12/2012 08:17 PM, Devin Reade wrote: > --On Thursday, April 12, 2012 03:17:37 PM +0200 Dennis Jacobfeuerborn > <dennisml at conversis.de> wrote: > >> On 04/12/2012 09:50 AM, Rafał Radecki wrote: >>> >>> I have two running servers (drbd primary, drbd secondary). When there is >>> a problem with one of them we switch to the second one. [...] >>> >>> Is there a way to make fsck -a on mounted filesystem for ext3? >> >> No. None of the popular Filesystems support online fsck. > > However, if you're using pacemaker the RA (IIRC) has the option > of doing an 'fsck -p' before mounting. OTOH, since an fsck has > no predicatable run time limit, a long fsck might cause a > 'failed start' condition, causing a cascade from one node to > another to another ... > > (more details on this mechanism are probably more appropriate to the > applicable HA lists) "doing an 'fsck -p' before mounting" still means you have to take the fs offline though so this doesn't really change anything. Regards, Dennis