Re: ext3: bump mount count on journal replay

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 03:15:25PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> Currently, you get fsck "just to be sure" once every ~30 clean
> mounts or ~30 hard shutdowns. I believe that hard shutdown is way more
> likely to cause some disk corruption, so it would make sense to fsck
> more often when system is hit by hard shutdown.
> 

At least in theory an unclean shutdown is not going to cause any
problems, unless the hardware is screwy, in which case even a single
hard shutdown is going to cause problems.  I'm not sure that it really
makes sense to arbitrarily state that a hard shutdown is 5 times more
likely to cause problems.  We could make it be configurable, I
suppose, but I'm not sure it's worth it to add all that extra
complexity.  (Heck, we could also argue using a similar reasoning that
software suspends also increases the chances of filesystem corruption
"if something bad happens".  :-)

						- Ted
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