17 Apr
2010
17 Apr
'10
8:46 a.m.
Hi Andy,
On Sat, April 17, 2010 5:41 am, Andy Smith wrote:
The time-based fsck can be painful,
Indeed, and they always seem to occur when you really down want them to!
Having now realised this, I'm considering
disabling the time-based
fsck by default.
Good idea - fully support this.
Would it bother you to discover your VPS had been
provided with
time-based fsck disabled?
Not at all, particularly if you provided instructions for people to enable
it.
Would it bother you if you one day discovered that
time-based fsck
had been disabled for you without your knowledge since you aren't on
this mailing list?
Without knowledge, perhaps. For me personally I wouldn't mind because I'm
not keen on time-based checks however I can see why someone else might
mind if they see things from a different perspective.
However, whilst not everyone is on the mailing list you've still got
contact e-mail addresses for all your customers? If so, can you mailshot
us all to advise us of such an intended change? As long as users can
change it back (and are told how to do so) I don't see it being a problem.
The key issue is that the default is a pain shouldered by everyone so if
you can reduce this pain in one fell swoop whilst still allowing anyone to
change their own configuration if desired then surely everyone's a winner.
Mathew