Question about file system checks

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On 27/03/2008, Danny Pansters <danny at ricin.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 27 March 2008 14:45:49 Marian Hettwer wrote:
>  > On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:39:55 +0000, Matthew Seaman
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>  > <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
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>  > > Jared Carlson wrote:
>  > >> Hi I have a question about startup scripts for BSD distributions.
>  > >> Can you turn off the file system check that occurs every 30 boots,
>  > >> etc?  I recall this being the case on a BSD platform, although my Mac
>  > >> OS X doesn't (to my knowledge) do a file system check that often at
>  > >> all.
>  > >
>  > > You are thinking of the Linux ext2/ext3 filesystem.
>  >
>  > Although this is OT, does anybody have a clue why ext2/ext3 filesystems
>  > behave like that?
>  > I wouldn't like to trust a filesystem which thinks a fsck is worth it,
>  > although it always was a clean shutdown.
>  > Any clue?! :)
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> ext2/3 is mounted async by default, I reckon most linux distros expect some fs
>  damage to occur because of that over time maybe. Or it's a relic of the days
>  when that was necessary, maybe it's not really necessary now anymore.

It's just periodic maintenance which is nearly always
set.  No more necessary than running a virus check.

UFS/FFS seems to do a better job of not messing up,
although, if you use fat32 as the standard, ext[23] is
nearly faultless as well.

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