Re: Checking filesystems periodically

2012-05-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org 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

Checking filesystems periodically

2012-05-04 Thread Anish Mangal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: Checking filesystems periodically

2012-05-04 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Anish Mangal an...@activitycentral.com 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

Re: Checking filesystems periodically

2012-05-04 Thread Chris Ball
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 found a

Re: Checking filesystems periodically

2012-05-04 Thread Chris Ball
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

Re: Checking filesystems periodically

2012-05-04 Thread Anish Mangal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 we can do that

Re: Checking filesystems periodically

2012-05-04 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Anish Mangalan...@activitycentral.com 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

Re: Checking filesystems periodically

2012-05-04 Thread Walter Bender
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Anish Mangalan...@activitycentral.com  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: