On Mar 06, 2007 09:27 -0500, Daniel Drake wrote: > OK. Given that write caching may be required for performance reasons or > there might be other possible reasons which would result in > preen-unrepairable fs corruption on power loss, my question is now: Is > it a really bad idea to run "e2fsck -y" on every boot? If your primary concern is not halting the boot, then yes. 99% of people only know to answer "y" to e2fsck anyways. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html