Quadratic fsck

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Mon Jul 28 13:36:38 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 09:29 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> For years, the default on RH (and successor) systems has been to only
> do 
> filesystem checks if the filesystem is dirty. Checks based on
> intervals 
> and mounts are not done.

I'm not sure that's true. I've definitely seen boot-time messages along
the lines of "mount count exceeded; performing fsck", and I never change
the defaults.

poc




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