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Message-ID: <20091109085318.GE4818@elf.ucw.cz>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 09:53:18 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, david@...g.hm,
Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@...hat.com>,
Florian Weimer <fweimer@....de>,
Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@....de>,
Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, mtk.manpages@...il.com,
rdunlap@...otime.net, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, corbet@....net, jack@...e.cz
Subject: periodic fsck was Re: [patch] ext2/3: document conditions when
reliable operation is possible
On Wed 2009-08-26 14:02:48, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 06:43:24AM -0700, david@...g.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
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