Re: why FFS is THAT slower than EXT2 ?

[David Scheidt]

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Ilia Chipitsine wrote:
> > as far as I remember ext2 has some "counter". I used to use Linux and
> > it performed 'fsck' from time to time (even if fs was clearly unmounted).
> > that is a very good thing to have.
> 
> And it's a good thing because ... well, maybe because it's not that
> reliable an FS. I actually can't see it as a good thing if you have a file
> system that doesn't need it. 

I seem to recall that ULTRIX had such a mechanism.  There must have been
other things that decremented the counter though, because my /home
filesystem got fscked nearly every reboot.  /usr would only be if the
machine was up a really long time. 


DAvid Scheidt




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