Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754674AbZKIIxY (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Nov 2009 03:53:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754479AbZKIIxY (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Nov 2009 03:53:24 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:40045 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754314AbZKIIxW (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Nov 2009 03:53:22 -0500 Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 09:53:18 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Theodore Tso , david@lang.hm, Rik van Riel , Ric Wheeler , Florian Weimer , Goswin von Brederlow , Rob Landley , kernel list , Andrew Morton , mtk.manpages@gmail.com, rdunlap@xenotime.net, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, corbet@lwn.net, jack@suse.cz Subject: periodic fsck was Re: [patch] ext2/3: document conditions when reliable operation is possible Message-ID: <20091109085318.GE4818@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20090824223915.GI17684@mit.edu> <20090824230036.GK29763@elf.ucw.cz> <4A932B18.1020209@redhat.com> <20090825093414.GB15563@elf.ucw.cz> <4A94ACDF.30405@redhat.com> <20090826111751.GC26595@elf.ucw.cz> <20090826131028.GB1370@ucw.cz> <20090826180248.GB6997@mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090826180248.GB6997@mit.edu> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1071 Lines: 27 On Wed 2009-08-26 14:02:48, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 06:43:24AM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote: > >>> > >>> as the ext3 authors have stated many times over the years, you still need > >>> to run fsck periodicly anyway. > >> > >> Where is that documented? > > > > linux-kernel mailing list archives. > > Probably from some 6-8 years ago, in e-mail postings that I made. My > argument has always been that PC-class hardware is crap, and it's a Well, in SUSE11-or-so, distro stopped period fscks, silently :-(. I believed that it was really bad idea at that point, but because I could not find piece of documentation recommending them, I lost the argument. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/