Re: [opensuse] ext3 check forced = frustration On Sun February 17 2008 00:25:02 Clayton wrote:
> What about the people who install openSUSE on a laptop? or on a home
> PC that is shut down every night? Â Are we right in expecting them to
> do tune2fs? Â An experienced user might not mind, but what about the
> new users? Â I understand why Novell chose to set ext3 as the default
> file system, and I know that if I prefer I can pick any other one
> from the list when I do my custom partitioning.... but where does
> that leave our new users... people new to Linux? Â ...people who have
> no clue about ext3, Reiser, etc.

That is exactly what I think, Clayton.

> Just some questions that really need to be thought about for a future
> release of openSUSE... I don't know the "right" answer here... but
> unleashing ext3 and its lengthy forced fsck on unsuspecting new users
> is not exactly a good thing. Â As others have noted, there really
> needs to be some warning... and some control over the ext3 fsck on
> boot... something an average new user can deal with. Â (maybe this is
> something to be discussed on the Project mailing list?)

You may be right that Project or Factory are more appropriate 
mailing-lists for this discussion. Feel free to move it over there, but 
I am not subscribed to them atm.
I will carry on through the one or two bugzilla enhancement entries (the 
one for the boot process - bug 344271 - and a new one for Yast, which 
Phillippe may create, or else I will).

-- 
Carlos FL
 "It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority.  By 
  definition, there are already enough people to do that." - G. H. Hardy



