On Tue 2008-01-08 16:07:27, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > > The ext3 journalling code can be summarised as: > > superblock->last_checked = random(); > sync(superblock) > > I hate it: every time Linux crashes, e.g. due to power failure, it takes > almost an hour to boot, because the kernel has decided to corrupt the > superblock to indicate that it's been years since last file system > check. And obviously the crappy init system provides no simple way to > stop the checking, to put it in the background, or whatever. The FOSS
rm /sbin/fsck? And no, ext3 here does not corrupt last_checked here. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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/