Re: Recommendations on forced disk check

[Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com>]

Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 05:27:47PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote:
> > What are your recommendations on using tune2fs to turn off the forced
> > HD check on a server that needs to be available as much as possible?
> >
> > If the forced check is shut off, should one run some manual check? Also
> > I don't have physical access to the machine only SSH.
>
> Since the forced checks only happen at boot (or perhaps remount), if the
> server is supposed to be available 24/7, it shouldn't be rebooted except
> at kernel update time anyway.

With ksplice (http://web.mit.edu/ksplice/) even that should not be 
necessary!

> I would assume that the people who wrote ext2/3 knew what they were
> doing when they implemented forced checks.
>
> Doug.


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