[CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

Fri May 15 07:20:22 UTC 2009
Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi>

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 02:03:32PM -0700, Scott Silva wrote:
> on 5-14-2009 1:24 PM Pasi ??? spake the following:
> > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 06:23:05PM +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote:
> >> Thank you all for your quick answers (you guys must have started
> >> typing BEFORE I hit the Send-button).
> >>
> >> The general consensus seems to be "If you can start anew: use
> >> XFS". This leaves one question: as the XFS is not included in the
> >> standard-kernel which option offers the "smoothest sailing"
> >> (especially during kernel-updates):
> > 
> > It seems XFS might be added as a default to RHEL 5.4.. 
> > 
> Probably not a default, but an option.
> 

Yes, of course it won't be the default filesystem :) I meant it will be
included in the normal kernel, and it doesn't have to be built as
external/extras module.

-- Pasi