Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Nov 2009 09:53:18 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | periodic fsck was Re: [patch] ext2/3: document conditions when reliable operation is possible |
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On Wed 2009-08-26 14:02:48, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 06:43:24AM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote: > >>> > >>> as the ext3 authors have stated many times over the years, you still need > >>> to run fsck periodicly anyway. > >> > >> Where is that documented? > > > > linux-kernel mailing list archives. > > Probably from some 6-8 years ago, in e-mail postings that I made. My > argument has always been that PC-class hardware is crap, and it's a
Well, in SUSE11-or-so, distro stopped period fscks, silently :-(. I believed that it was really bad idea at that point, but because I could not find piece of documentation recommending them, I lost the argument. Pavel
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