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Allan Gottlieb wrote: |
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> At Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:57:30 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote: |
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>> Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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>>> As it's Sunday, here's an odd little thing. |
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>>> Not long ago, while booting this machine, four ext3 partitions |
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>>> needed checks on remount count reaching zero. They had been set to |
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>>> 23, 24, 25 and 26 mounts. (I didn't choose the numbers; they were |
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>>> allocated at the time I was creating the file system.) |
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>>> Now, this box does get rebooted, but hardly 23 x 24 x 25 x 26 = |
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>>> 358,800 times all told. At, say, two reboots per day, that would |
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>>> take rather a long time: a little under 500 years if my arithmetic |
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>>> is working. |
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>> I think you're confused. 23 means a check each 23 mounts. With 2 |
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>> mounts per day, that's a check every 12 days for the first and second |
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>> disk. |
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> I think the point is that 23, 24, 25, 26 are relatively prime so that, |
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> if N is initially zero, it takes 23x24x25x26 increments initially for (N |
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> mod 23), ..., (N mod 26) to all again be zero. |
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Why would it matter if they're all zero or not? |