Silviu, On Monday 30 October 2006 07:41, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
The periodic ext3 fs checks at boot are driving me nuts. I know they can be disabled.
What is the check period? How is it measured? In reboot cycles? Calender time elapsed since previous check? Some combination of these? Something else?
Couldn't they be performed at shutdown instead of boot?
Whenever someone starts the computer it means 100% they need it right then.
Having ext3 perform fs checking on a 300 GB full drive is nothing that any user will tolerate easily.
OTOH whenever someone shuts down the computer, there's a 95% chance that it doesn't need it right then anymore (it's not a reboot).
The problem I see with that is that when a system starts up, it's in as stable and pristine a state as it will ever be. On the other hand, when shutting down, it's distinctly more likely that there will be something amiss, even in the kernel, and a file system check in such a state could do more harm than good.
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