On 11/10/07 02:36, Phillip Susi wrote: > When was the last time you had a fsck find and fix errors? I have two > machines that have been running reiserfs for 2 years now and have never > had to fsck, and on the rare occasion that I am bored and feel like > forcing one, nothing wrong is found. > That would be two days ago, before that, a month ago. Hmm, might need a new HDD :(
My point is this, an fsck is an 'out of band' check, that is, a check that doesn't rely on other things. It means that while theoretically a file-system maintains its integrity, in practice it cannot. fsck is a useful tool that needs to run regularly and every 30 mounts is pretty reasonable in my opinion. The user interface it presents is a different conversation altogether. Predictability and cancellation would be good ideas to implement. I should also point out that I've been working away at a 'dirty flag' check for the dosfsck tool, but thus far an implementation has eluded me. (That and severe time constraints while I get ready for the onslaught on the World Solar Challenge web site :) -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06" - E115°50'39" (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)() ..ASCII for Onno.. |>>? ..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 8888 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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
