regular fsck runs are too disturbing

[Caroline Ford]

We are strongly being advised NOT to leave things on standby here as
it's bad for the environment.

Caroline

On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 23:46 +0200, Markus Hitter wrote:
> Am 27.09.2007 um 22:17 schrieb Phillip Susi:
> 
> > Scott Kitterman wrote:
> >> ReiserFS is effectively unmaintained.  I've switched from ReiserFS  
> >> to Ext3 for
> >> my installs too.  While it works well now, bitrot seems inevitable.
> >>
> >> Scott K
> >>
> >> Note: This has nothing to do with an legal issues the developers  
> >> have.  The
> >> Reiser devs have been focused on ResierFS4 for quite some time.
> >
> > The point though, is still valid; reiserfs doesn't bother forcing a  
> > disk
> > check every n mounts, so why does ext3 still do this?
> 
> Not an answer, but I feel people should stop thinking about doing  
> anything essential at boot/shutdown time. Right now, many people  
> switch their computers on and off regularly, but the days of such  
> habits are counted.
> 
> Think about Laptops and PCs with a reliable standby mode. Think about  
> PDAs, Phones, TV boxes. When not used, they go into standby mode.  
> Some of them don't even feature something like "off". They all get  
> booted once or twice a year, so the point in time "before mounting"  
> next to never happens. If you want to do maintenance, you have to do  
> it on the running system.
> 
> 
> Markus,
> writing from a laptop with about 2 months uptime.
> 
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