On Oct 19, 2005 13:57 -0700, sr ns wrote: > needs_recovery gets set on the file system, but FS state is clean. Can I > safely ignore this? When ext3 filesystems are mounted, needs_recovery is set until they are unmounted. If e2fsck is run, or the filesystem is mounted then the journal is replayed and this flag is cleared. This prevents the need for a full e2fsck run. > After the default number of mounts, it gets into auto > fsck, and it takes hours to finish it. Isn't it supposed to do it quickly? The needs_recovery + journal makes recovery after crash go quickly. Running a full e2fsck does not go any faster with e2fsck for ext3 filesystems, but in most cases you don't need to run a full e2fsck, and this DOES go faster. > Can I safely set the max mount count to zero? Mostly, yes. There are other forms of corruption like disk, cable, memory, software that can cause errors in a filesystem. Doing periodic checks can detect these things. Setting max mount count to zero means you skip those checks until 6 months pass (which is max mount interval, and can also be tuned). Some people disable these checks because of the long e2fsck time can lenghten downtimes. In that case, you should instead schedule some time when system is down to run e2fsck for a few hours. If you are using LVM/DM you can also make a snapshot and run e2fsck -fn on it to see there are no problems, and then use tune2fs to update the "last checked" time/count. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
