Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:41:35 -0600 | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: ext3: bump mount count on journal replay |
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On Jul 14, 2004 22:32 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > AFAICS, this just means that if you have an ext3 filesystem > > (i.e. has_journal) that you will fsck 5x as often, not so great. You > > should instead check for INCOMPAT_RECOVER instead of HAS_JOURNAL. > > Oops, you are right. Updated patch is attached.
No patch was attached.
> > Instead, you could change this to only increment the mount count after > > a clean unmount 20% of the time (randomly). Since most people bitch > > about the full fsck anyways this is probably the better choice than > > increasing the frequency of checks and forcing the users to change the > > check interval to get the old behaviour. > > Nice hack.... would that be acceptable?
It's OK by me. I don't think you'll get complaints from users if it is checked less often (there is still the time-based check).
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://members.shaw.ca/adilger/ http://members.shaw.ca/golinux/
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