On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 07:07:16AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 00:36 -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > and moreover, ext3 is subject to super long fsck when you hit the > > power switch on 20GB or 200GB or 2TB or 20TB systems > > That is misleading. As you surely know, the init script runs > fsck.ext3 on a partition when *either* of these 2 situations occur: > (a) it was not cleanly unmounted > OR > (b) the partition has not been fsck'ed in X number of days. Something funny here... When an ext3 fs has not been cleanly unmounted, it doesn't run through any kind of super-long fsck. It replays the journal, and sorts itself out in a matter of seconds. You only get the super-long fsck if it ALSO hasn't been fsck'ed in X number of days / Y number of mounts. I use ext3 on everything, precisely because its recovery from an unexpected power outage is fast and reliable. I even had a system once which was used by kids who would "shut down" by pulling the plug, as a matter of course - ext3 handled it just fine. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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