Question about file system checks

[Alfred Perlstein]

* Marian Hettwer <mh at kernel32.de> [080327 06:55] wrote:
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> 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.
> > 
> > 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?! :)

"linux" :)

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- Alfred Perlstein