[mythtv-users] What do you do about e2fsck?

[Wil Cooley]

Dale E. Martin wrote:
>> The bad thing with ext3 is that it is not of a modern design as xfs and jfs,
>> who in turn are inferior compared to zfs.
> 
> I'm curious what all of you people using ext3 do about e2fsck?  Do you just
> disable it by setting the interval super high, or do you get to wait for
> hours for filesystem checks occasionally?
> 
> I've been using ext3 for / and xfs (on a raid5 array) for data for a long
> time and it's been a good combination for me.  The e2fsck on the smaller
> partition is no big deal and xfs has been stable for me thus far.  (My
> backend has gone > 100 days uptime a number of times, usually I take the
> machine down for hardware maintenance when it goes down.)

I just turn the time- and mount-based checks off;  Red Hat does this by 
default, so I presume it's reasonably safe.

Wil