Hi, On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Robert Schiele wrote:
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 09:07:13PM +0100, Alex wrote:
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
There is no _need_ to do so. It is just an extra level of safety to do regular checks to detect inconsistencies as early as possible. This is like doing backups: You don't _have_ to do them but it is generally considered a wise choice to do so.
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.
The problem is that often you have to check the filesystem to _find_ that there is a reason that something might be wrong. Obviously the other solution is to wait until a inconsistency has managed to garble all your data.
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.
This is not a problem of the filesystem. There are the same advantages and disadvantages to check a ReiserFS filesystem as there are for ext3 filesystems or any other comparable one. It's just that distributions tend to handle them differently but actually there is no reason not to change that if the weights of advantages and disadvantages are rethought.
... and not to forget: you can always abort an unwanted "regular" ext3 filesystem check during boot with CTRL-C. Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org