linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/2] e2fsprogs: turn off enforced fsck intervals by default

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Message-ID: <20110216225516.GE26780@thunk.org>
Date:	Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:55:16 -0500
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] e2fsprogs: turn off enforced fsck intervals by
 default

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:14:33PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> The forced fsck often comes at unexpected and inopportune moments,
> and even enterprise customers are often caught by surprise when 
> this happens.  Because a filesystem with an error condition will 
> be marked as requiring fsck anyway, I submit that the time-based 
> and mount-based checks are not particularly useful, and that 
> administrators can schedule fscks on their own time, or tune2fs 
> the enforced intervals if they so choose.  Patch #1 disables the 
> intervals by default, and I've added a new mkfs option (-C) to 
> turn on the old behavior of random, unexpected, time-consuming
> fscks at boot time.  ;)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>

How about just making it be an /etc/mke2fs.conf profile.  Just use
something like this:

    get_bool_from_profile(fs_types, "enable_periodic_fsck", 0)

... and I don't think we need to have a new command-line option.
People who want old behaviour can do

[defaults]
    enable_period_fsck = true

						- Ted
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