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Date:      Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:14:09 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 9.0 install and journaling
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1112101509220.14596@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <4EE3D1F0.60500@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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On Sun, 11 Dec 2011, Da Rock wrote:

> GPT is cool - no problems there. The main thing I want to know is if I need 
> to run fsck every time the system dies unexpectedly (which is a higher 
> occurrence on a laptop)? GJournal helps in that it takes care of that. The 
> growing size of drives is another concern given the time it takes to check a 
> 500G disk (my smallest atm), although this is way down on the list for the 
> moment.

SUJ speeds up the check a lot, seconds as opposed to minutes.  If 
something happens to the journal, it falls back to a standard fsck.



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