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Date:      Wed, 27 Oct 1999 17:24:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Don <don@calis.blacksun.org>
To:        "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
Cc:        Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su>, Chuck Youse <cyouse@paradox.nexuslabs.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: why FFS is THAT slower than EXT2 ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910271722460.35683-100000@calis.blacksun.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.10.9910271324180.671784-100000@acl.lanl.gov>

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> > as far as I remember ext2 has some "counter". I used to use Linux and
> > it performed 'fsck' from time to time (even if fs was clearly unmounted).
> > that is a very good thing to have.
linux performed a fsck on every 16th boot afaik. This may have been
changed but that is how often it occurred when I used linux.
This had more to do with the file system becoming fragmented than with it
becoming inconsistent. (dont quote me on that.)

-don



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