In message <199601150156.UAA01826@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>, der Mouse writes:
> >>> we have nightly fsck -n's run.  i _don't_ want fsck's run via
> >>> mount's or time when i've got this.
> >> I don't think anyone has proposed anything that can't be configured
> >> to check only if the kernel thinks the filesystem was unmounted
> >> uncleanly, which is what I gather you want.  I sure haven't.
> > So then why all this talk about modifying fsck?  Why not just modify
> > your rc file to pass the "-f" flag every 10 reboots, but leave the
> > fsck/kernel source alone?
> 
> Because we want per-filesystem values for these things.  I may want to
> check root once a month "whether it needs it or not", but /home every
> tenth mount, and /var every time around at least until I figure out
> what keeps leaving 0-size-file turds all over it...you get the idea.
> 

How about something similar to newsyslog.conf for file systems?  Consider
the following fsck.conf:

# FS		reboots	days
/dev/rsd0a	 *	 15
/dev/rsd0e	 10	  *
/dev/rsd1d	 20	 45

where /etc/rc decides whether to fsck based on the minimum criteria between
# reboots or time-since-last-fsck.  We could use "* *" (or simply not list
the FS) to specify no forced periodic check.