Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:55:26 -0400 | From | Theodore Ts'o <> | Subject | Re: ext3: bump mount count on journal replay |
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On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 03:15:25PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Currently, you get fsck "just to be sure" once every ~30 clean > mounts or ~30 hard shutdowns. I believe that hard shutdown is way more > likely to cause some disk corruption, so it would make sense to fsck > more often when system is hit by hard shutdown. >
At least in theory an unclean shutdown is not going to cause any problems, unless the hardware is screwy, in which case even a single hard shutdown is going to cause problems. I'm not sure that it really makes sense to arbitrarily state that a hard shutdown is 5 times more likely to cause problems. We could make it be configurable, I suppose, but I'm not sure it's worth it to add all that extra complexity. (Heck, we could also argue using a similar reasoning that software suspends also increases the chances of filesystem corruption "if something bad happens". :-)
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