On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:22:36PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > On 24/04/2013 11:37, Philip Webb wrote: > > 130424 Neil Bothwick wrote: > >>> 130423 Philip Webb hadn't read any horror stories re Reiser 3 : > >> Where have you been for the last ten years? > > > > Reading this list & various Linux news sites. > > > >> A quick search of this list's archives will reveal several. > > > > If it's so easy, please point me to a couple (smile). > > > > The only one mentioned in this thread so far > > is a strange case of trying to use a RF image on a RF, > > which most users will never have any occasion to encounter. > > > > It /used to be/ rare. > > But ever since vmware-workstation has been around and available > to Linux users, it has become a much more serious issue at large, > and you need to be aware of it. > > It's one of those issues that is not immediately obvious, where > overlooking it is not a classic screwup and where it can bite you > hard if you are not careful. We can't blame any of the software for > this, it's just a side effect of the way things are nowadays
I don't know if it's configurable somewhere, but I vaguely recall seeing an occasional bootup where I get a message about the system having gone more than X days without being fsck'd. So it helpfully does it for me automatically and then does a regular reboot. I don't know if it's for the 200 megabyte ext2 / or the huge ReiserFS3 /home partition. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
