Thank you for your suggestion. However, the changes you are requesting
aren't really a bug and require more discussion, which should be done on
an appropriate mailing list or forum. [WWW]
http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists might be a good
start for determining which mailing list to use.
Even if you do not agree with this feature, it is a feature, and is the
default. Therefore, this bug has been marked as invalid. Feel free to
discuss your views further on the mailing lists, as they are welcome.
But let me add this as well, just to help you understand what is going
on...
>Do you have any statistics of desktop computers that prove that this is
required or was this feature chosen because someone just found it
useful?
>From wikipedia - "A journaling file system is designed such that tools
such as fsck do not need to be run as often." Notice it doesn't say "at
all." This is a proactive step to avoid possible issues, and most users
would much rather run that, and not have an issue, then run into a
larger problem down the road.
Also, it is fairly easy to alter the settings. If in your case the scan
takes too long, you have the ability to change the settings. But for
myself (on many many computers) and for others I know, the scan takes
but a minute or so.
>Also, you can't tell every user to go to the console to turn this
annoying "feature" off. People coming from Windows will find this
annoying and it definitely doesn't make Linux more user-friendly to
them.
It is far better then trying to explain to them how to manually run
'fsck' from a LiveCD, etc.
>Seriously, this can't be called a feature. I've never seen any other
operating system do this. Why does Windows not need this? Why does
Ubuntu need this? Doesn't Ubuntu have a journalling file system? Then,
why should this check be done, at all?
Windows absolutely runs a check as well as OSX. Remember back in the
day, pre-XP, you would boot to the "annoying" ScanDisk. Or even with
XP, with the lovely blue disk checking screen (and no that doesn't ONLY
run due to a bad shutdown). The Windows scan takes forever...
Hope this better relays the methodology behind 'fsck', It is far better
to run an auto-check, then wait and have a problem.
Thanks,
Justin M. Wray
** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.20 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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