Minutes from the Technical Board, 2008-07-15

[Lionel Laratte]

Word.

Lionel

In the Chinese language, "crisis" is a compound word composed of "danger"
and "opportunity".


On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Stephan <root at stewo.org> wrote:

>
> great idea!
>
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:47:12 +0200, mike corn <mikecorn at arcor.de> wrote:
> > Why not move this process to shutdown time instead of boot time? The
> > user could walk away and let the computer finish checking the file
> > systems then shut down. If an error is detected, then the check would be
> > repeated at the next boot up.
> >
> > Bryce Harrington wrote:
> >> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:52:25AM +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> >>> == Filesystem checking / AutoFsck ==
> >>>
> >>> A suggestion was made to the technical board that Ubuntu could be
> > smarter
> >>> about how and when it performs filesystem integrity checks (fsck).
> >>>
> >>> Decision: This should be discussed more widely in the developer
> > community
> >>> Action: Scott to start a thread on ubuntu-devel/-discuss
> >>
> >> I find the autofsck to be most notable on my laptop, perhaps because I
> >> reboot it more frequently, and because it usually chooses to autofsck at
> >> some inopportune time.  I don't know if laptop harddrives need fsck more
> >> than desktop's, but I wouldn't mind seeing the frequency be reduced for
> >> laptops.
> >>
> >> Alternatively, maybe the autofsck could be made to take a few more
> >> factors into account, such as total run time since last fsck, total
> >> absolute time since last fsck, drive age, etc.
> >>
> >> Bryce
> >>
> >
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