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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Daniel Drake <ddrake@brontes3d.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: e2fsck and human intervention
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 13:19:13 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070307051913.GF5723@schatzie.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1173191227.11804.9.camel@systems03.mmm.com>

On Mar 06, 2007  09:27 -0500, Daniel Drake wrote:
> OK. Given that write caching may be required for performance reasons or
> there might be other possible reasons which would result in
> preen-unrepairable fs corruption on power loss, my question is now: Is
> it a really bad idea to run "e2fsck -y" on every boot?

If your primary concern is not halting the boot, then yes.  99% of people
only know to answer "y" to e2fsck anyways.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-03-07  5:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-05 16:26 e2fsck and human intervention Daniel Drake
2007-03-05 16:48 ` Theodore Tso
2007-03-05 17:01   ` Daniel Drake
2007-03-05 17:42   ` Sev Binello
2007-03-06  2:40 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-03-06 14:27   ` Daniel Drake
2007-03-07  5:19     ` Andreas Dilger [this message]

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