From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 2 22:45:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C3CA16A41C for ; Sat, 2 Jul 2005 22:45:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nike_d@cytexbg.com) Received: from mail.interbgc.com (mx03.interbgc.com [217.9.224.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B86B943D1F for ; Sat, 2 Jul 2005 22:45:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nike_d@cytexbg.com) Received: (qmail 64629 invoked from network); 2 Jul 2005 22:45:17 -0000 Received: from nike_d@cytexbg.com by keeper.interbgc.com by uid 1002 with qmail-scanner-1.14 (uvscan: v4.2.40/v4374. spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:SA:0(-2.6/8.0):. Processed in 3.679623 secs); 02 Jul 2005 22:45:17 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=8.0 Received: from 213-240-205-57.1697748.ddns.cablebg.net (HELO tormentor.totalterror.net) (213.240.205.57) by mx03.interbgc.com with SMTP; 2 Jul 2005 22:45:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 83991 invoked from network); 2 Jul 2005 22:45:12 -0000 Received: from qmail by qscan (mail filter); 2 Jul 2005 22:45:12 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.3?) (10.0.0.3) by tormentor.totalterror.net with SMTP; 2 Jul 2005 22:45:12 -0000 Message-ID: <42C71914.9090503@cytexbg.com> Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 01:45:40 +0300 From: Niki Denev User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Luke Crawford References: <200506291704.50185.ndenev@icdsoft.com> <20050630174315.C66660@mail.prgmr.com> In-Reply-To: <20050630174315.C66660@mail.prgmr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: background fsck can be dangerous! X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 22:45:24 -0000 Luke Crawford wrote: >> disabling background fsck while continuing to run soft updates >> will make little difference. >> >> Personally, I would recommend that you keep your disk mount >> configuration as it is, and that you buy a UPS. >> Well, i surely need an UPS, that's out of question, but the problem that i had was not about loss/corruption on files on disk. Before the background fsck finished some files were unreadable, and they happened to be some libraries used by my mail software. After the fsck finished these libraries were accessible again and everything was normal and working, at least this is what it looked like to me. So, i think that if i had disabled background fsck (as i did now) i should have skipped the loss of these about ten emails... --niki