I remember this. I got introduced to Linux by a study friend while at Monash in '94, it was slackware (thank you Andrea!). I remember that we tried various other distros and I moved camps to Redhat based distros in '96 (3?).
BUT! I kicked out the Windows (NT) based fileserver out of our company in '98 using Redhat 5.2 and Samba 1.X (cant remember exactly the version number) ... I have never ever looked back. Still using Redhat and CentOS (5.9 and 6.3) and Samba (samba3x). Jobst On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 06:09:51PM +1100, Lindsay Sprinter ([email protected]) wrote: > > > On Tue, 6 Nov 2012, James Harper wrote: > > >> > >> On Tue, 6 Nov 2012, Andrew Worsley <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> I have a modest root/usr partition > >> 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 > > I have been using Linux now for nearly 20 years, for most of that time I > have used (and still use) ext2 or ext3. During the twenty years I have > never seen one of these "sceduled" fsck's produce any errors caused by a > failure in the drive or the file system. Errors have been produced a small > number of times (like around 2 or 3 times in the 20 year period) but they > have been caused by externel influences, like for instance a failing 12V > line on the power supply, this has happened to me twice, both times the > problem was high internal resistance in the 12V lines filter condensors. > Such a failure will of course effect all drives no matter what the file > system. > > So in the end one could probably turn it off as has already been susgested > and lose no sleep over it. I have in fact set the number of mount counts > to a check to values between 70 and 140, as each ssytem is not used daily > (i have three) the fsck's come around about once every 6 to 12 months. As > the data stored is mostly hand entered historical engineering data plus > some music (Oh also my debian repositiories) not much storage space is > used so these fscks are not to bad. > > Oh bye the way.......... > > My 20th aniversary of using linux will come up around June July next year, > How many people remember SLS and Ygdrasil? > > Lindsay > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main -- If builders built buildings the way Microsoft wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, [email protected], General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L & The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
