Jonathan Jefferies wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:Frankly, I'd rather use write-through.I believe there are three modes that ext3 can be setup to do journelling one of which may be write through. Believe those modes are set at fdisk time.In any case, I don't see any argument for not using an extended fsck on a reboot after improper shutdown, which was my original question.Uh, on a megabyte or 10 - 30 GIG hard drive it's a minor inconvenienc. Running fsck on a 250 GIG hard drive or worse a system which has terra byte systemsis something else. Can you say major delays? J.
I guess it's a matter of how important one's data are, and
when the last backup was done. I come from a Telecom background,
where the loss of even one day's transactions can mean $100M USD
or more. Having a disc check take a few hours is nothing by
comparison with the risk of data loss in that context.
I still haven't seen an argument against having the default mode
be do an extended check.
Is there a way to change the default reboot mode?
Mike
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