Re: dentry list checker

Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Thu, 18 Dec 1997 18:03:44 -0500 (EST)

That looks very good. I think it should be in the standard
kernel, but run less often. It can also run whenever there is
an oops, exception, panic, etc. I'd expect there are many other
things that can be checked too.

Production systems need this kind of check as much as
development systems do. Maybe development kernels should
run such checks every few seconds, and production systems
should run them every few minutes.

#if (PATCHLEVEL & 1)
#define SANITY_CHECK_INTERVAL (3*HZ)
#else
#define SANITY_CHECK_INTERVAL (500*HZ)
#endif