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
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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
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
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
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
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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
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
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: