Silviu, On Monday 30 October 2006 07:41, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote: > The periodic ext3 fs checks at boot are driving me nuts. I know they > can be disabled.
What is the check period? How is it measured? In reboot cycles? Calender time elapsed since previous check? Some combination of these? Something else? > Couldn't they be performed at shutdown instead of boot? > > Whenever someone starts the computer it means 100% they need it right > then. > > Having ext3 perform fs checking on a 300 GB full drive is nothing > that any user will tolerate easily. > > OTOH whenever someone shuts down the computer, there's a 95% chance > that it doesn't need it right then anymore (it's not a reboot). The problem I see with that is that when a system starts up, it's in as stable and pristine a state as it will ever be. On the other hand, when shutting down, it's distinctly more likely that there will be something amiss, even in the kernel, and a file system check in such a state could do more harm than good. > ... Randall Schulz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
