From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] e2fsprogs: turn off enforced fsck intervals by default
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:55:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110216225516.GE26780@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D5C1409.1030203@redhat.com>
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:14:33PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> The forced fsck often comes at unexpected and inopportune moments,
> and even enterprise customers are often caught by surprise when
> this happens. Because a filesystem with an error condition will
> be marked as requiring fsck anyway, I submit that the time-based
> and mount-based checks are not particularly useful, and that
> administrators can schedule fscks on their own time, or tune2fs
> the enforced intervals if they so choose. Patch #1 disables the
> intervals by default, and I've added a new mkfs option (-C) to
> turn on the old behavior of random, unexpected, time-consuming
> fscks at boot time. ;)
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
How about just making it be an /etc/mke2fs.conf profile. Just use
something like this:
get_bool_from_profile(fs_types, "enable_periodic_fsck", 0)
... and I don't think we need to have a new command-line option.
People who want old behaviour can do
[defaults]
enable_period_fsck = true
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-16 22:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-16 18:12 [PATCH 0/2] e2fsprogs: update mkfs defaults Eric Sandeen
2011-02-16 18:14 ` [PATCH 1/2] e2fsprogs: turn off enforced fsck intervals by default Eric Sandeen
2011-02-16 18:24 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-02-16 19:12 ` Amir Goldstein
2011-02-16 22:55 ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
2011-02-17 21:55 ` [PATCH 1/2 V2] " Eric Sandeen
2011-02-16 18:21 ` [PATCH 2/2] e2fsprogs: enable user namespace xattrs " Eric Sandeen
2011-02-16 19:15 ` Andreas Dilger
2011-02-16 19:27 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-02-16 21:49 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-02-16 21:53 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-02-16 22:56 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-02-16 22:58 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-02-16 23:01 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-02-17 21:56 ` [PATCH 2/2 V2] " Eric Sandeen
2011-02-20 23:31 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-02-21 17:00 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-02-16 22:12 ` [PATCH 0/2] e2fsprogs: update mkfs defaults Andreas Dilger
2011-02-16 22:37 ` Eric Sandeen
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