Theodore Ts'o

So first of all, to install a debian package from a specific file, you need to use dpkg -i, not "apt install". "apt install" takes a package name and installs...

What is your goal? Is it to speed up the time to do a file system check? Is it to be able to run a check with the file system...

So let's follow Sakichi Toyoda "5 Why's" analysis tool. **Why** are you trying to relax the calibration standards of tools? What is the purpose of this? If fsck can fix...

Is the real issue that you want to check the file system while it is mounted, and there are a set of errors that are very likely to happen because...

What kind of hard drive is this? Consumer HDD's have an Unrecoverable Bit Error Rate (UBER) of 10**-14. For Enterprise HDD's the UBER is 10**-15. And these numbers are conservative,...

The I/O required to do "mkfs.ext4 - 1048576 | dd of=/dev/sdXX bs=4k" is going to be far greater than simply doing "mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdXX 1048576". Specifically, writing to block device directly...

The inodes_per_block_group must be a multiple of 8. mke2fs will not create file systems with illegal inodes_per_block_group. There were some old android make_ext4fs programs that were making illegal ext4 file...

Did you read the reason why the e-mail was rejected? The usual reason is because you tried to send mail with HTML. Mail sent to kernel mailing list must be...

old-stable currently does not have fuse3. This will change when Bullseye because Debian Stable, and Buster becomes old-stable. But old-old-stable will still not have fuse3. It's unclear to me what...

Well, it's technically correct, since it requires both an unmounted file system *and* that it be freshly checked. I agree the error message isn't terribly clear, and could be improved...