On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Ilia Chipitsine wrote:
> as far as I remember ext2 has some "counter". I used to use Linux and
> it performed 'fsck' from time to time (even if fs was clearly unmounted).
> that is a very good thing to have.
And it's a good thing because ... well, maybe because it's not that
reliable an FS. I actually can't see it as a good thing if you have a file
system that doesn't need it.
> I do not recall that FreeBSD did such thing.
It might not have needed to. It never has in five years for me.
The numbers are from my old job at sarnoff, see my web page ... for a
while in 1997-99 we had "things go wrong" about once a month. Over the
space of 18 months as "things went wrong" we found ourselves having to fix
at least one Linux box each time. On average it was four.
> I DID lose FFS even it was mounted "sync", not async.
I guess I was lucky :-)
anyway, I'll drop this thread, just trying to fill in some info.
ron
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