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From: Marian Hettwer <mh@kernel32.de>
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Cc: Jared Carlson <jcarlson23@yahoo.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Question about file system checks
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:39:55 +0000, Matthew Seaman
<m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
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> 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