Re: [gentoo-user] A little light relief from endless problems

[Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>]

At Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:49:36 +0100 KH <gentoo-user@konstantinhansen.de> wrote:

> Peter Humphrey schrieb:
>> As it's Sunday, here's an odd little thing.
>>
>> Not long ago, while booting this machine, four ext3 partitions needed checks 
>> on remount count reaching zero. They had been set to 23, 24, 25 and 26 
>> mounts. (I didn't choose the numbers; they were allocated at the time I was 
>> creating the file system.)
>>
>> Now, this box does get rebooted, but hardly 23 x 24 x 25 x 26 = 358,800 
>> times all told. At, say, two reboots per day, that would take rather a long 
>> time: a little under 500 years if my arithmetic is working.
>>
>>   
> Hi,
>
> this is incorrect. 179400 mounts would be enough (24 and 26 can both be
> divided by 2).

Correct.  I erred in saying that 23,24,25,26 are relatively prime as you
noted.  In general if it was a1,a2,...an the answer would be
LCM(a1,a2,...,an), where LCM abbreviates Least Common Multiple.

allan