From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Valerie Henson" Subject: Re: [Patch] document ext3 requirements (was Re: [RFD] Incremental fsck) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:52:40 -0800 Message-ID: <70b6f0bf0801161252y1897956y76b9caf52ae0188a@mail.gmail.com> References: <200801090022.55589.a1426z@gawab.com> <200801090740.12989.a1426z@gawab.com> <70b6f0bf0801082345vf57951ey642e35c3d6e5194f@mail.gmail.com> <200801091452.14890.a1426z@gawab.com> <20080112145140.GB6751@mit.edu> <20080113171916.GB4132@ucw.cz> <20080113174125.5f39ac64@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20080115201653.GA5639@elf.ucw.cz> <4d47a5d10801151744t378ecdcbj1c326181b4360452@mail.gmail.com> <20080116114940.GC22460@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Daniel Phillips" , "Alan Cox" , "Theodore Tso" , "Al Boldi" , "Rik van Riel" , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: "Pavel Machek" Return-path: Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.182]:37662 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751405AbYAPUwm (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:52:42 -0500 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u52so575438pyb.10 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:52:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20080116114940.GC22460@elf.ucw.cz> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Jan 16, 2008 3:49 AM, Pavel Machek wrote: > > ext3's "lets fsck on every 20 mounts" is good idea, but it can be > annoying when developing. Having option to fsck while filesystem is > online takes that annoyance away. I'm sure everyone on cc: knows this, but for the record you can change ext3's fsck on N mounts or every N days to something that makes sense for your use case. Usually I just turn it off entirely and run fsck by hand when I'm worried: # tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/whatever -VAL