On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 06:10:04PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 09:57 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Monday 19 June 2006 08:40, Drew Parsons wrote: > > > [ change the force-fsck mount behaviour ] > > > > My first reaction is that this falls under the header of "tuning to be > > done by the system's administrator based on personal preference". > > I think I'd want to make a "but think of the children" response to that. > Of course the sysadmin can change it afterwards to whatever they want > to. But what sort of experience do we want to provide for our less > advanced users? It's not reasonable to ask them to change the defaults > for something like this.
IMNSHO is the way to go, is to educate users
We can learn laptop-users to do
shutdown -Fr # Force fsck and reboot
to reset the mount counters. They will find a way to schedule it.
Example given: force fsck while packing for a bussness trip or
each second monday during lunch.
> So the question comes down to "what set of defaults provides the nicest
> experience for less confident users?" Will it be nicer for them if we
> provide an arrangement that can occasionally reduce their reboot time?
I think people should think for themselfs.
And forsee that staggered mount counters will hinder
forced file systems checks.
Cheers
Geert Stappers
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