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Date:      Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:28:26 +0100
From:      Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>
To:        Roberto Pereyra <rjpereyra@gualeguaychu.gov.ar>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How dangerous is 5.2 for production use
Message-ID:  <20040123102826.GB27890@ei.bzerk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040123102204.GA20702@gualeguaychu.gov.ar>
References:  <4010DF2B.1070804@ant.uni-bremen.de> <20040123102204.GA20702@gualeguaychu.gov.ar>

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On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 07:22:04AM -0300, Roberto Pereyra typed:
> 
> > However the fsck of our 300+500 GB RAIDs 
> > takes almost an hour and that's why i want to switch to 5.x because it 
> > fscks in the background.
> 
> Hi
> 
> FreeBSD 4.9 can fsck in the background too, look /etc/defaults/rc.conf
> 
> Set in /etc/rc.conf
> 
> fsck_y_enable="YES"
 
This doesn't mean "fsck in the background". It means do a normal fsck, 
answering "yes" to all questions fsck might ask.

Ruben

> roberto
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > The machine is an ASUS A7V333 with AMD XP 1800+ and 512 MB RAM, 3ware 
> > 7500 RAID.
> > It provides the 'usual' services:
> > - NFS
> > - Samba
> > - IMAP
> > - SMTP
> > - LPD printing
> > - Mailman
> > - HTTP
> > - Postgres
> > - LDAP User, mail aliases, automount info
> > - IMP Webmail
> > 
> > So, no fancy hard- or software, i guess.
> > Would it be very hazardous to sitch to 5.2 already now?
> > 
> > Another thing: Is there any point in converting the filesystems to UFS2 
> > (in a later step)?
> > 
> > Thanks for any insight,
> > 
> > 	Heinrich
> > -- 
> > 
> > Heinrich Rebehn
> > 
> > University of Bremen
> > Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering
> > - Department of Telecommunications -
> > 
> > Phone : +49/421/218-4664
> > Fax   :            -3341
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