At Fri, 14 Dec 2001 00:11:33 +0000 (UTC), "Richard Rauch" wrote:
> (Side note: I find it amusing that that GNU/LINUX OS _forces_ a fsck if
> it's been ``too long'' since one was last done.  Apparently, the people
> developing that GNU/LINUX don't have much confidence in their filesystem
> support...(^&  That, or they have unclean shutdowns, universally, on a
> frequent enough basis that no one runs cleanly long enough to encounter
> the spurious fsck.)

Or, they like to be relatively sure that the disk and file system in
intact.

	http://www.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=1209

It's a bug that we don't have any mechanism that allows users to
select this.

(Actually, now i'm puzzled: there was recently some discussion about
this, after the PR was put into 'feedback' state...  Not quite sure
why it didn't get tacked on to the PR.)


chris