From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 11 19:17:32 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4A2916A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:17:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 538F943D1F for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:17:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j2BJHVF03736; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:17:31 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200503111917.j2BJHVF03736@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:17:31 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <1513197873.20050311183716@wanadoo.fr> from "Anthony Atkielski" at Mar 11, 2005 06:37:16 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Jerry McAllister Subject: Re: fsck errors on a running system that disappear in single-user X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:17:32 -0000 > > Jerry McAllister writes: > > > At least most likely. There could possibly a real inconsistency, > > but it would be difficult on a running system to distinguish it > > from the artifacts you point out above. > > But a real consistency would presumably persist with an fsck on a system > in single-user mode, which is (I assume) quiescent, right? Well, yes, or at least with the file system to be fsck-ed unmounted. ////jerry > > -- > Anthony >