RE: [CentOS] XFS or JFS on CentOS 5?

Jiann-Ming Su <> scribbled on Thursday, November 20, 2008 4:59 PM:

The only thing I don't like about ext3 is the fsck. On relatively small filesystems, it's an annoyance. But on huge filesystem, 500-1000GB, a system may take a long, long time to come back up.

Even on smaller 200GB-systems this takes annoyingly long time, but I see the need why one would occasionally want to run this anyway. Last time I rebooted one of our servers to get a new kernel loaded, I was told at boot that it'd been some 400days or so since the last fsck. After such a long time you might want to do the forced check anyway, just in case. It's for your own good. 8-)