Re: [tlug] xfs, jfs, reiser

[Martin Baehr <mbaehr@example.com>]

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 04:40:18PM +0900, B0Ti wrote:
> > on ext3 the mandatory fsck after so a number of mounts still
> > takes the full time like before, and usually happens when i am
> > in a hurry. why can't this be done in multiuser mode?
> That would cause an even greater corruption.  Just think about it.

not if its a read-only test.
this test will not change anything only make a list of places
that have problems. these places would then be checked at the next
offline fsck and be much faster then having to do a full fsck on 
your 20GB data partition that hardly gets updated.

> >and knowing the above i won't use reiser for anything else either.
> Journaling data too adds an overhead, that's why it's not enabled by 
> default in ext3.

ooops, remind me to turn it on sometime soon :-)

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