On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Thirdly, fsck is not magic. It cannot detect/repair all corruption. As
> far as I know, we have not yet found a case of corruption which can be
> meaningfully fixed by fsck. We did do quite a bit of testing for this
> at an earlier point.
It i
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Anish Mangal
> 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
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Anish Mangal
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 inv
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On Fri 04 May 2012 07:57:47 PM IST, Chris Ball wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, May 04 2012, Chris Ball wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, May 04 2012, Daniel Drake wrote:
>>> Until F17 we haven't had a good way of communicating this via the boot
>>> animation. Now w
Hi,
On Fri, May 04 2012, Chris Ball wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, May 04 2012, Daniel Drake wrote:
>> Until F17 we haven't had a good way of communicating this via the boot
>> animation. Now we can do that easily but it lacks implementation.
>>
>> Thirdly, fsck is not magic. It cannot detect/repair all
Hi,
On Fri, May 04 2012, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Until F17 we haven't had a good way of communicating this via the boot
> animation. Now we can do that easily but it lacks implementation.
>
> Thirdly, fsck is not magic. It cannot detect/repair all corruption. As
> far as I know, we have not yet foun
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Anish Mangal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am curious to know why we are not periodically checking file systems
> after every N boots on the XO laptop.
Historically, we have used a filesystem without a checker (jffs2).
Now that we use ext* on newer laptops, there are a few r
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Hi,
I am curious to know why we are not periodically checking file systems
after every N boots on the XO laptop.
The biggest reason I can assume is because every Nth time the system
will appear to boot very slowly to the user thus creating the
impres
