On 10/1/07, Waldemar Kornewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/1/07, Luke Yelavich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So what happens when users install a distro that either doesn't check their > > filesystem > > regularly, or attempts to check in background, which can't be completed due > > to system activity > > etc, and they loose their data? I'd be thinking that having the filesystem > > periodically checked > > would be a good thing, to ensure my data stays in tact. > > Look, this check doesn't just take three seconds. Nobody would > complain in that case. On some machines it's taking an awful 40min!!! > I see this check twice a month. I lose an incredible amount of > productivity because of this check. Actually, I'd lose less time by > creating regular backups and restoring a backup in case of a problem. > > Millions of XP machines are running just fine without this check. Do > you think any desktop user will try to understand why this check is > needed? Would you accept your car needing a 20min self-check before > you can drive, especially if you're late? Would you even care why this > check is needed if you see that some other car doesn't do this check > or has a more efficient checking method? > > Seriously, the solution that Ubuntu has chosen is just an ugly hack > because nobody wanted to implement automatic checks in the background, > but there are quite a few people (as you can also see in the bug > reports) who don't like this situation. In any serious company that > cares about its users and the user experience the solution would be > very simple: Either it's implemented correctly or not at all.
Hi, I too find these checks quite annoying, but if they are needed, that's ok I can live with them. However, what I would like to do would be to be able to postpone them when I really don't have time to wait they're done. Sometimes I'm just busy when I arrive at work, and that's really annoying when I boot my laptop and see that I've reached the fatal 30th mount. Maybe an easy solution would be to do something like: - Your file system has been mounted more than 30 times and it needs to be checked for errors. Press Enter to check your file system now. X seconds left before normal boot, without checking your file system. - With a correctly chosen timeout (10 seconds?), I could boot almost as usual when I'm too busy to start fsck, and perform it later on a subsequent boot. What do you think? -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
