Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 00:16:14 +0100 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: utisoft@gmail.com Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, olli@lurza.secnetix.de, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, utisoft@googlemail.com Subject: Re: Question about forcing fsck at boottime Message-ID: <20090406001614.304360d6@gluon.draftnet> In-Reply-To: <b79ecaef0904051340v6ba08df4sa376a1ef57e3a7e2@mail.gmail.com> References: <b79ecaef0903310247o356fdfb8mdc8cd2c3621366ee@mail.gmail.com> <200903311657.n2VGvLE8010101@lurza.secnetix.de> <b79ecaef0904051340v6ba08df4sa376a1ef57e3a7e2@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 21:40:52 +0100 Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com> wrote: > 2009/3/31 Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>: > > Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com> wrote: > > =A0> 2009/3/31 Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>: > > =A0> > > > =A0> > IMHO this background fsck isn't good idea at all > > =A0> > > =A0> Why? > > > > Google "background fsck damage". > > > > I was bitten by it myself, and I also recommend to turn > > background fsck off. =A0If your disks are large and you > > can't afford the fsck time, consider using ZFS, which > > has a lot of benefits besides not requiring fsck. > > > > Best regards > > =A0 Oliver > > >=20 > Right... You were bitten by background fsck, what _exactly_ happened? > All the 'problems' here associated with bgfsck are referring to > FreeBSD 4 etc, or incredibly vague anecdotal evidence. Have you > googled for background fsck damage? Nothing (in the first two pages at > least) even suggests that background fsck causes damage. > http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=3Dbackground+fsck+corruption You'll find the first few results are about panics during background fsck resulting in an endless cycle of boot-panic-reboot, which don't occur with foreground fsck. And at least the first result is from 6.x. --=20 Bruce Cran
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