Re: unchecked 31 times
----- Original Message -----
From: "Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.org>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 13:23
Subject: Re: unchecked 31 times
> On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 at 19:00 GMT, Paul Morgan penned:
> > On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 11:17:42 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 at 16:55 GMT, Alan Shutko penned:
> >>> Nick Welch <mack@incise.org> writes:
> >>>
> >>>> I suppose mke2fs(8) is where that comes from specifically. Easy to
> >>>> disable the periodic checks, though:
> >>>>
> >>>> tune2fs -i 0 -c 0 /dev/hda6
> >>>
> >>> That's a very bad idea. As the manpage says:
> >>>
> >>> You should strongly consider the consequences of disabling
> >>> mount-count-dependent checking entirely. Bad disk drives,
> >>> cables, memory, and kernel bugs could all corrupt a filesystem
> >>> without marking the filesystem dirty or in error. If you are
> >>> using journaling on your filesystem, your filesystem will never
> >>> be marked dirty, so it will not normally be checked. A
> >>> filesystem error detected by the kernel will still force an fsck
> >>> on the next reboot, but it may already be too late to prevent
> >>> data loss at that point.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Wait, wait; I'm confused. I thought one of the perks of running a
> >> journalling file system was that you can speed up the boot process by
> >> disabling boot-time fsck?
> >
> > He didn't say he was running ext3. If he is, you're right. I tested
> > ext3 when I moved to it by powering down my machine when several
> > writes were going on. I never did break it.
>
> Is it just ext3, or do all journalling file systems obviate the need for
> fsck? IIRC, ext3 is slower than the other options because it has a more
> complete journal ... but I may be totally wrong.
>
> Just to be a pain, I might point out that just because you never broke
> it during those tests, doesn't mean that such a test couldn't break it.
>
> >
> > To be fair, I did the same kind of testing on WinXP's NTFS, and I
> > didn't break that either.
> >
>
>
> --
> monique
>
My system runs fsck after 37 mounts without a filesystem check. Thanks
monique for removing your previous sig. It made me want to CC you.
Hoyt
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