On 27/03/2008, Danny Pansters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 27 March 2008 14:45:49 Marian Hettwer wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:39:55 +0000, Matthew Seaman > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > > > > > Jared Carlson wrote: > > >> Hi I have a question about startup scripts for BSD distributions. > > >> Can you turn off the file system check that occurs every 30 boots, > > >> etc? I recall this being the case on a BSD platform, although my Mac > > >> OS X doesn't (to my knowledge) do a file system check that often at > > >> all. > > > > > > You are thinking of the Linux ext2/ext3 filesystem. > > > > Although this is OT, does anybody have a clue why ext2/ext3 filesystems > > behave like that? > > I wouldn't like to trust a filesystem which thinks a fsck is worth it, > > although it always was a clean shutdown. > > Any clue?! :) > > > ext2/3 is mounted async by default, I reckon most linux distros expect some fs > damage to occur because of that over time maybe. Or it's a relic of the days > when that was necessary, maybe it's not really necessary now anymore.
It's just periodic maintenance which is nearly always set. No more necessary than running a virus check. UFS/FFS seems to do a better job of not messing up, although, if you use fat32 as the standard, ext[23] is nearly faultless as well. -- -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"