Multiple fscks

Posted Jan 30, 2008 3:28 UTC (Wed) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054)
In reply to: ext3 metaclustering by rfunk
Parent article: ext3 metaclustering

[S]et the mounts-before-check count on each filesystem to be a different prime number. That way multiple filesystems almost never get checked at the same time.

Even better is setting the mounts/count to the same number on all filesystems, then use tunefs to set the starting count to a different value on each.

Voila! Never a multiple fsck.