<< For this to be true, you need another assumption: All hardware is absolutely reliable which just is not the case. ...
Windows runs on the same "potentially flakey" hardware that Linux does, and it doesn't routinely perform a chkdsk. Most people are quite happy with this and only need to chkdsk when something goes wrong and they suspect filesystem damage. The argument about random hardware corruption does not hold up in the face of this evidence. >> Yes, but... Running fsck unconditionally every N boots is a crude solution. It ignores the fact that some systems have done millions of file operations and others have done a few thousand. It ignores the availability of hardware health/status information available from modern disks (different for every make/model?). So my question is: can it be made IO volume dependent? Can it make use of hardware status information (i.e. run fsck unconditionally if there were more than normal rate of soft errors (ECC corrections) or bad tracks)? -- 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
