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From: Marat Khalili <mkh@rqc.ru>
To: linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: notification about corrupt files from "btrfs scrub" in cron
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 16:58:37 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <529fe690-b3c7-a63a-c574-4c4f443b4ba0@rqc.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMU1PDj+ovqRXOrcnRkr8rP4L+e=g9FXeTmaKBHQ-2o+r2+5vw@mail.gmail.com>

On 23/11/17 15:59, Mike Fleetwood wrote:

> Cron starts configured jobs at the scheduled time asynchronously.
> I.e. It doesn't block waiting for each command to finish.  Cron notices
> when the job finishes and any output produced, written to stdout and/or
> stderr, by the job is emailed to the user.  So no, a 2 hour job is not a
> problem for cron.

Minor additional advice -- prepend you command with:

> flock --nonblock /var/run/scrub.lock
to avoid running several scrubs simultaneously in case one takes more 
than 24 hours to finish.


--

With Best Regards,
Marat Khalili


  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-23 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-22 19:54 notification about corrupt files from "btrfs scrub" in cron ST
2017-11-23  9:41 ` Duncan
2017-11-23 11:47   ` ST
2017-11-23 12:59     ` Mike Fleetwood
2017-11-23 13:58       ` Marat Khalili [this message]
2017-11-24  1:04     ` Duncan

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