Comment 5 for bug 85291
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| Mario Vukelic (kreuzsakra) wrote Re: ext 3 filesystems are never fsck'ed if they live on removable USB disks | #5 |
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Actually there is something conclusive in this discussion: https:/
"To try to answer the question of whether we could simply disable the
periodic fsck, I decided to ask Mingming Cao, one of the developers
who has worked on ext3 and later, ext4. I just got the following:
"Periodically fsck ext3 is still needed, even if ext3 is a journalled fs.
kernel code vm/fs could be buggy, or disks IO errors, which cause
filesystem metadata corrupted silently, this can't be detected by simply
replaying the journal log.
[....]"
That must go doubly for removable disks, due to more likely unclean removal and additional risk of hardware issues (disks being carried around, etc.)
And here Martin Pitt mentions a UDS decision about how to deal with fsck for fixed disks: https:/