Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:25:23AM +0200, David wrote:
> Every X days or Y reboots, Linux (on my home PC, which I boot & shut
> down 2x each day) wants to scan partitions for errors at startup.
> While this is a bit annoying (can't use the PC for 10-20 minutes), I
> usually let it finish and read a book while waiting.
If you don't have power outages, here is one time where JFS may be of
use (even with IBM's caution, see my recent post in another thread).
JFS was designed to allow a fast fsck on boot so that servers don't
spend a lot of time fscking after a crash.
I don't know if XFS also has this feature.
JFS works very well, is journalling, but like all meta-data-only
journalling filesystems, can loose data if you loose power, although any
filesystem can loose data even with data journalling if the data is in
transit between the kernel and the platter (in a cache somewhere).
Sort answer, read the disk-related HOWTOs and try switching to JFS.
Doug.
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