Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, John Allen wrote:
Use XFS, and it won't fsck when you boot :)

Yeah, instead that stupid idea from SGI [fsck.xfs is a no-op] will require
you to boot from another media to do a periodic xfs_repair on / if you want
to make sure it is a proper xfs and not some corrupted mess that will
eventually crash hard and cause massive data loss.

For the other partitions, XFS is fine and often the best choice. But for
the root? It is a Bad Idea.

Your / should be small, fsck-friendly, and resilient as all heck. If
running fsck in your / takes enough time that you wouldn't afford to do it
at every boot (in a recent system), then your / is too large in my book.

The same holds for any other partition you can't easily umount to fsck in
maintenance mode.

--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh


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