fs periodic check (was Re: 2.6.22-rc1 killed my ext3 filesystem cleanly unmounted)

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> > >  How do you know that the corruption was caused by 2.6.21-rc1 ?
> > >  Isn't it possible that the corruption was created by an earlier
> > >  kernel, but only detected when a forced fsck was run - which just
> > >  happened to be while you were running 2.6.21-rc1 ...
> > > 
> > >  My point is that, as far as I can see, there's nothing tying
> > >  2.6.21-rc1 specifically to this corruption... or?
> > 
> > You might be right, but I thought maybe more probably is the cause in kernel
> > as that is what I have changed recently. ;) Or maybe someone can at leats say
> > "No, no changes to be considered between 2.6.20.6 and 2.6.22-rc1.". ;)
> 
> Well, given that your e2fsck transcript started with this:
> 
> > /dev/hda3 has been mounted 38 times without being checked, check forced
> 
> #1, This is why periodic checks are a good thing; it catches problems
> that could stay hidden and result in data loss sooner rather later.

Actually, I see something funny with periodic checks here. It claims
'filesystem check on next boot' for >10 boots now.

It is sharp zaurus machine, and the filesystem tends to _never_ be
unmounted correctly (broken scripts), so I get journal replay each
time.

Anyone else sees that?
							Pavel
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