[vdr] Re: Filesystem pros & cons

["Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@suse.de>]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 02:05:50PM +0200, gfiala@s.netic.de wrote:
> Quoting Andreas Mair <Andreas.Mair@linogate.com>:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > So why does my standard SUSE 8.1 do a timeconsuming filesystem check on
> > > every N'th mount of the ext3 partition? (I think N is something around
> > > 30, and the check takes more than 5 minutes for my 120GB disk - a long
> > > time when you have started the box because you wanted to watch tv... ;-)
> > >
> > > Is it misconfigured or 'by design' ?
> > > Any idea how to stop this?
> > 
> > Use tune2fs to set those values ("man tune2fs").
> 
> Or modify your /etc/init.d/boot.localfs not to fsck ext3-partitions
> (in case you use only journalling-fs you could simply comment out the fsck-line)

Don't do that.  The e2fsck exactly knows if a journal is available and
applies this.  This well documented, e.g. `man e2fsck' the first
few lines.  In other words:  e2fsck is _required_ even for ext3 fs.


        Werner 


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