Re: New concept of ext3 disk checks

[Alan Cox]

On Iau, 2004-08-12 at 18:58, Otto Wyss wrote:
> The advantage of such a concept are rather obvious, desktop systems
> don't have to use ridiculous high check interval values or disable
> checks altogether and server systems may run forever. Also checks may be
> done first on the written disk sectors. On an average loaded system,
> this way malfunctioning software are detected within minutes and
> hardware possibly within days, a rather high improvement to the current
> detection time of sometimes months.

I think it would indeed be a good project. If anyone has patches please
send them along to the linux-fsdevel list

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