On Tuesday 08 January 2008 21:51:53 Andi Kleen wrote: > Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Now, there are good reasons for doing periodic checks every N mounts > > and after M months. And it has to do with PC class hardware. (Ted's > > aphorism: "PC class hardware is cr*p"). > > If these reasons are good ones (some skepticism here) then the correct > way to really handle this would be to do regular background scrubbing > during runtime; ideally with metadata checksums so that you can actually > detect all corruption. > > But since fsck is so slow and disks are so big this whole thing > is a ticking time bomb now. e.g. it is not uncommon to require tens > of minutes or even hours of fsck time and some server that reboots > only every few months will eat that when it happens to reboot. > This means you get a quite long downtime.
That's why I always do "tune2fs -c 0 -i 0" on any new filesystem. It probably should be default. > > -Andi > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Ondrej Zary -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
