Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:45:49 +0100 From: Marian Hettwer <mh@kernel32.de> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: Jared Carlson <jcarlson23@yahoo.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about file system checks Message-ID: <f9ae3129fa235b31251ec97bc12c1e78@localhost> In-Reply-To: <47EBA3AB.40307@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <47EBA3AB.40307@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:39:55 +0000, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > 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?! :) cheers, Marian
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