Weird boot problem??

[Ken Moffat]

Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 05:12:27 -0800
> Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>David A. Bandel wrote:
>>
>>>Move to XFS and say
>>>goodbye to fsck forever.
>>>
>>>Ciao,
>>>
>>>David A. Bandel
>>>
>>
>>
>>What about ext3 or reiserfs? I never see fsck. One day during a wind 
>>storm I had my computer go down 5 seperate times, each a short power 
>>outage, and it rebooted fine, no problems using reiserfs (Libranet Linux).
>>
>>Ext3 is a simple convert from ext2, yes? Just add the journal?
> 
> 
> Depending on options to tune2fs, ext2/3 volumes may be fsck's automatically
> on either 38 reboots or 180 days. This is only at reboot. So, if you don't
> reboot often, you may miss this. Our systems are rebooted at least once a
> day (power to the vehicle that are in is not permanent). So, we see this and
> look forward to xfs.
> 
> 

Does Reiserfs also fsck at intervals? I've been using it for a while now 
without seeing this.

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Ken Moffat
kmoffat at drizzle.com