low-hanging fruit

[Gian Paolo Mureddu]

Gian Paolo Mureddu escribió:
> Indeed I was. I was making these suggestions for the spin, not for 
> regular users.
>
Sorry for the double post and reply to myself..

Detailed explanation: Make a change in the way the "Desktop" spin is 
handled and possibly take some of the "special tuning" to get these 
things going and  possibly make them into:

a) A complementary initscript which would be stand-alone and which would 
then, either:
     *Zero the mount count on ext2/3/4 filesystems upon first boot, 
leaving evidence in /etc/ that the change has been made, so on each 
reboot the presence   of this file is checked and boot as usual (I find 
this to be somewhat convoluted, but some might think it is a good idea, 
and since we're brainstorming I    post it), or
    *alternatively the idea would be the same, but instead of zeroing 
the mount count (with the use of tune2fs, parsing the information from 
fstab), have the script change fstab itself....

Or

b) Have the script as part of the Anaconda routine for the installation 
process and run this "post-install" script and perform either of the 
above mentioned "workarounds".

I still believe that the way to go would be to have a subroutine in Disk 
Druid, make a *selectable* option so that users can have an option 
whether they want their drives checked every 'x' number of mounts or 
not, and the amount; made available only for the custom partition 
layout  (most likely seen only by "power users") and default to running 
`tune2fs -C 0` in default behavior, after partition formatting, and 
showing only a message like "Preparing the hard disk partitions for 
installation" or some such, also dump the corresponding actions to the 
"log" console, and possibly prior the actions take effect show a summary 
window (just like the "The following partitions have been selected to be 
formatted" window, in fact in the same window) showing the mount times 
each partition will be allowed to be mounted prior being forced checked 
or some such... Again this is aimed primarily for experienced users and 
most likely will be only used in special applications, like servers or 
production workstations and such.

Once more, I'm thinking of this as a long-term solution for mainline 
Fedora and not necessarily for a "Desktop" spin, but we could at least 
give it a try in the Desktop spin, especially with the sixth fstab field.