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Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly



On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 14:32 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, John Allen wrote:
> > Use XFS, and it won't fsck when you boot :)
> 
> Yeah, instead that stupid idea from SGI [fsck.xfs is a no-op] will require
> you to boot from another media to do a periodic xfs_repair on / if you want
> to make sure it is a proper xfs and not some corrupted mess that will
> eventually crash hard and cause massive data loss.

Wow, I really have to wonder what the rationale was behind /that/
design.  Seems shortsighted no matter how you try to cut it.

> Your / should be small, fsck-friendly, and resilient as all heck.

In another words, ext3.

-- 
Paul Johnson
baloo@ursine.ca

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