Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:13:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Jason Arnaute <non_secure@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for a graceful way to disable BG fsck ? Message-ID: <20070228131227.K6955@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <660490.45660.qm@web51014.mail.yahoo.com> References: <660490.45660.qm@web51014.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Jason Arnaute wrote: > Because if I miss it, I'm screwed - you can't kill a BG fsck, and you can't > reboot the system while a BG fsck is going on. So then you have to reset it > again, which is scary because you've got a dirty filesystem, while being > fsck'd, and then you dirty it up some more. I'm not very informed on the rest of the issues here, but I can say that killing bgfsck is entirely possible. Send the fsck_ufs processes TERM signals, and then wait a bit and they will exit. I believe they finish whatever the current task they are working on is, then release the snapshot which can take a bit to free. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
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