On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <mi...@bga.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Anish Mangal<an...@activitycentral.com> > wrote: >> >> I am curious to know why we are not periodically checking file systems >> >> after every N boots on the XO laptop. > > > I think the question is: "Should functions which affect the 'system' be > performed automatically, or should they be explicitly invoked ?" > > The currently-existing OLPC precedent is the 'Software updates' facility -- > which gets invoked manually to check whether the system's Activities are > up-to-date. My suggestion is to package the required software (fsck?) into > a new 'Check system' facility - and add an icon for that new facility to the > 'My Settings' panel - then the user who invokes it will know why his XO is > "tied up" for a while. [The local XO-laptop distributing organization can > publish guidelines as to how often such a 'Check system' facility ought to > be used.] >
+1 > mikus > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
