linux-kernel - Re: [Patch] document ext3 requirements (was Re: [RFD] Incremental fsck)

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Date:	Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:52:40 -0800
From:	"Valerie Henson" <val.henson@...il.com>
To:	"Pavel Machek" <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	"Daniel Phillips" <phillips@...gle.com>,
	"Alan Cox" <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"Theodore Tso" <tytso@....edu>, "Al Boldi" <a1426z@...ab.com>,
	"Rik van Riel" <riel@...hat.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] document ext3 requirements (was Re: [RFD] Incremental fsck)

On Jan 16, 2008 3:49 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> 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
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