On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:31:29AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
> > There are two sides of this. fsck is only now getting strong enough that I
> > would start to recommend that kind of thing. As fsck matures, we should at
> > least have the option of ext2 style automatic runs after X number of
> > mounts/crashes.
> No, this is an absolutely hideous feature of ext2, if you want to have it print
> a reminder to the user that they have not run fsck recently, fine, but in the
> eyes of a suser trying to get their laptop to turn on for their presentation, or
> their server to not leave the whole company hanging, this "feature" of ext2 fsck
> is a bug.
Sorry. It's never a bug.
You can control the behavior quite easily by "tune2fs".
Mount count: 3
Maximum mount count: 20
Last checked: Thu May 3 04:16:07 2001
Check interval: 15552000 (6 months)
So it's clearly a feature that makes sense at least in some
environments.
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Stefan
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