Re: background fsck can be dangerous!

From: Steven Hartland (killing_at_multiplay.co.uk)
Date: 06/30/05

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    To: "JM" <jmartin37@speakeasy.net>, "Brian Fundakowski Feldman" <green@freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:12:06 +0100

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    From: "JM" <jmartin37@speakeasy.net>

    >>You should turn write caching off on your drives.
    >>
    >>
    > and in addition to that... you can enable a foreground fsck at boot
    > which might be the better option if boot times aren't an issue.

    Normally they wouldn't but on some of our machines there
    is a large amount of disk 1.TAB + and foreground checking takes
    a year and a day :(

    /me looks forward to a journaling FS

    The FS is the one area that really lets FreeBSD down in my
    opinion. Wish I had 1. the time and 2. the knowledge to help
    out with dev in the area but unfortunately I have neither :(

        Steve / K

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