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Date:      Tue, 26 Nov 2002 00:16:53 +0100
From:      Marcin Dalecki <mdcki@gmx.net>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: -current unusable after a crash
Message-ID:  <3DE2AF65.9000502@gmx.net>
References:  <200211250959.39594.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021125102358.33619A-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20021125172445.GA8953@rot13.obsecurity.org> <3DE29DE6.CDD96F3F@mindspring.com>

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Terry Lambert wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:24:46AM -0500, Robert Watson wrote:
>>
>>>>I thought, this might be due to the priority of the background fsck and
>>>>have once left it alone for several hours -- with no effect. The usual
>>>>fsck takes a few minutes.
>>>
>>We really need to disable background fsck if the system panicked.
>>I've seen far too much bizarre filesystem behaviour that went away the
>>next time I did a full fsck.
> 
> 
> I don't think this is really possible.
> 
> I went looking for a generic "application use" CMOS are for this
> sort of thing a while back, and I was unable to find one.
>

Well you should please take a look at the "fast boot" option
of moderately modern BIOS-es. Somthing along those lines went right now
in to the linux kernel. Seems pretty adequate to me, since you would
be even able to controll it through the BIOS setup...


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