On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 17:47 -0500, Steve Bergman wrote:
It's been awhile since I had to sit through one of those boot time fsck's, but now that you guys remind me of them I remember why I'm using ext3.
By default, you still have to with ext3. Just not as often. Every 21 mounts or whatever, or 180 days or whatever.
A wise default, I will agree. I just wish it came with a message that said "DON'T PANIC!" in nice friendly letters, so that my clients didn't *freak* when they saw all the warning nessages. I also wish that it would default to doing its *damnedest* to fix the problems rather than dumping them at a cold and lonely # prompt and leaving them with a "broken" system.
If I want it to be conservative about fixing stuff, by God, I can tell it to dump me at a command prompt.
Exactly. What are the odds that the person answering the prompts knows more than fsck about how to fix filesystems?