Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 16:00:00 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Musing on boot Message-ID: <199801050530.QAA01099@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 04 Jan 1998 21:40:19 PDT." <199801050440.VAA25521@harmony.village.org>
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> > > The idea is to have a list of file systems that *MUST* be present for > the system to come up. These files systems are fsck'd and mounted > synchronously. All the rest of the file systems have a fsck kicked > off in the background, and a mount done when that fsck happens to > finish. List the "optional" filesystems in /etc/fstab with '0' fsck pass values and 'noauto' mount options, then put fsck <special> && mount <filesystem> & for each filesystem in /etc/rc.local > I thought I'd bounce it off hackers. It seems like such a simple idea > that something must be wrong with it. It's certainly not new. 8) > P.S. Code to follow if there appears to be interest... I would be inclined to suggest that an option to mount_ffs(8) that automatically fsck'ed a filesystem before mounting it would be a good way to go. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\
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