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Re: [opensuse-factory] About ext3 as default and periodic fs checks
- From: Alex <one_way@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 21:07:13 +0100
- Message-id: <200611032107.14036.one_way@xxxxxxxxx>
> > This is frighteningly true, here are 2 suggestions,
> > we probably need them both.
> > 1) While an fsck is occurring in non-verbose startup mode
> > we need a message to that effect with a progress bar.
> > 2) On shutdown; if a routine fsck WOULD happen next reboot,
> > the OS asks if the user minds converting the shutdown to a reboot.
> > The fsck can happen on a fresh boot but not when the computer is needed.
> > Once booted the system puts up a window a la Mac,
> > waits 2 minutes and shuts back down automatically.
> > With the fsck done, the next reboot happens normally.
> Could you add those to the feature wishlist in our wiki so that it
> does not get forgotten?
I don't want to sound too trolling ;), but this is just a workaround to a very
unsatisfactory situation, nervertheless catapulting Linux back into archaic
computing times for the average desktop user.
I'm not a file system specialist and I don't want to become one, but why on
earth has a file system in the 21st century to perform time consuming
checks - with absolutely no other reasons for this behaviour apart from the
fact that the system has been booted x times? If there is reason to assume
that something might be wrong, then let the fs check itself - but not just
because the computer has been sut off cleanly off a couple of times.
As I said, I am no specialist, and I am no ReiserFS evangelic, but for me one
of the biggest advantages of ReiserFS was that I was rid of the absolutely
maddening periodic fs checks. While I understand the rationale for changing
the default fs from a maintainer's point of view, I consider it major flaw
from the end-users pov.
Alex
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> > we probably need them both.
> > 1) While an fsck is occurring in non-verbose startup mode
> > we need a message to that effect with a progress bar.
> > 2) On shutdown; if a routine fsck WOULD happen next reboot,
> > the OS asks if the user minds converting the shutdown to a reboot.
> > The fsck can happen on a fresh boot but not when the computer is needed.
> > Once booted the system puts up a window a la Mac,
> > waits 2 minutes and shuts back down automatically.
> > With the fsck done, the next reboot happens normally.
> Could you add those to the feature wishlist in our wiki so that it
> does not get forgotten?
I don't want to sound too trolling ;), but this is just a workaround to a very
unsatisfactory situation, nervertheless catapulting Linux back into archaic
computing times for the average desktop user.
I'm not a file system specialist and I don't want to become one, but why on
earth has a file system in the 21st century to perform time consuming
checks - with absolutely no other reasons for this behaviour apart from the
fact that the system has been booted x times? If there is reason to assume
that something might be wrong, then let the fs check itself - but not just
because the computer has been sut off cleanly off a couple of times.
As I said, I am no specialist, and I am no ReiserFS evangelic, but for me one
of the biggest advantages of ReiserFS was that I was rid of the absolutely
maddening periodic fs checks. While I understand the rationale for changing
the default fs from a maintainer's point of view, I consider it major flaw
from the end-users pov.
Alex
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