The check usually happens on reboot so it can cause a significant increase in the time before the system is available. Probably something to be aware of for HA type systems. On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Hemant K Chitale <hkchital@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Has anyone noticed / documented / measured the impact of ext3fs periodic > filesystem checks that Ronny Egner's talks about at > > http://blog.ronnyegner-consulting.de/2009/10/01/ext3-beware-of-periodic-file-system-checks/ -- Regards, Greg Rahn http://structureddata.org -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l