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Date:      Tue, 5 Mar 2002 20:13:12 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Softupdates on root in 4.5-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <20020305191312.GA1665@raggedclown.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020305185203.F3F865D06@ptavv.es.net>
References:  <20020305152447.GA25206@swansea.cableinet.net> <20020305185203.F3F865D06@ptavv.es.net>

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On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 10:52:02AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> 
> One point of clarification...while a system running with softupdates
> does not REQUIRE an fsck to be safely returned to service, it does
> need one at some point to free up unused blocks that are still marked
> as in use. In V5.0 it is likely that background fsck will be
> implemented so that you boot back up and get the system functioning
> and then start fsck running in the background to get back deleted file
> space.
> 
That is what happens in -current, it's sort of spooky :)
But a very *cool* idea...

-- 
Regards
   Cliff Sarginson -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>

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