Re: [CentOS] Calling All FS Fanatics

Les Mikesell wrote:

Since your data normally isn't journalled anyway, you probably aren't any more likely to lose anything with ext2, but you may have to wait through a long fsck. The main problem I've had with ext2 wasn't so much that it needed the fsck to clean it, it was that the stock setup refused to fix many errors automatically. If a system was at all busy when it crashed it would very likely drop you to a root prompt and make you run fsck manually, answering 'y' to every prompt (as though I wouldn't want it fixed...). No fun at all when the box is miles away.

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.

Kirk Bocek