[mythtv-users] Storage Group Disk Scheduler

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Sun Jul 10 01:07:44 UTC 2011


On 7/9/2011 21:03, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Raymond Wagner"<raymond at wagnerrp.com>
>> If you don't uncleanly mount, then you don't have to fsck. EXT3 just
>> has a nasty carry over from EXT2, in that it doesn't trust itself, and
>> runs an fsck periodically anyway.
> "...in that it realizes that filesystem corruption can come from many
> different sources, go unnoticed, spread, and ruin entire systems when you
> could have caught it easily, if you had caught it soon enough."
>
> There.  FTFY.  :-)
>
> Got nothing to do with not trusting itself.  It doesn't trust anything.
> And neither should you.

Well... except for things like ZFS and BTRFS with live checksumming and 
(depending on your disk configuration) recovery.


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