On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 02:40:09PM +0200, David Vasek wrote: > On Sun, 10 Apr 2011, Marc Espie wrote: > > >This is completely stupid. > > > >What do you trust more ? your file system, or fsck ? > > > >oth have bugs ! I'm sure of it ! > > > >so, if you run fsck, it's likely > >you're going to run into fsck bugs eventually (and trying fsck on a mounted > >partition was really, really stupid). > > There is an optional fsck -n of (mostly) mounted filesystems in > /etc/daily. In what cases is this automated check intended to be > used?
It's code we got from BSD 4.4 lite2. This specific chunk was brought by millert@ in rev 1.17. I would venture that apart from file system hackers, or people with really flaky hardware, no-one should set that specific test...
