Question about file system checks

[Marian Hettwer]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:39:55 +0000, Matthew Seaman
<m.seaman at 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.
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> You are thinking of the Linux ext2/ext3 filesystem.
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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