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Re: ext3 Re: Sarge with ext3, reiserfs (3/4?) or xfs?



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.

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