> > On Tue, 6 Nov 2012, Andrew Worsley <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a modest root/usr partitions but the larger other partitions > > only used for recording TV take 30+ minutes to do the occasional fsck > > and that always is demanded sometimes very inconveniently on a reboot. > > If you have an Ext* filesystem that is used for storing large files then you > should make it Ext4 (which has some optimisations for fsck on unallocated > space) and you should have a number of Inodes that is a good match for the > number of files. > > But there are other filesystems that offer advantages. XFS has traditionally > been one of the best options for large files and generally needs no fsck. > BTRFS is designed to never need a fsck and in terms of practically never > needing a fsck should be better than XFS. ZFS is good, but maybe not for a > little PVR. > > Finally there's nothing stopping you from just increasing the amount of time > between fsck runs. If a system is running 24*7 then it probably won't need a > fsck every year. >
Is a routine fsck on ext* filesystems still recommended, or just done because "that's the way we've always done it"? James _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
