ext3 fsck on reboot

[Tom Metro]

Robert Krawitz wrote:
> On a 500 GB partition, even if extN only checks once every 30 reboots
> or so, it's going to take an awfully long time on those unusual
> occasions.

I use XFS on my big disks, so I haven't noticed this, but does anyone 
know why this check isn't performed by a daemon running in the 
background? Sure, it'd have to be read-only, but if it observed 
problems, it could record where, and notify the user that they need to 
reboot for repairs. The repairs should then happen pretty quick, now 
that the locations have already been found.

  -Tom

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