Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 19:00:21 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates and (avoiding) fsck Message-ID: <20001029190021.Z75251@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> In-Reply-To: <20001029183443.A27388@sharmas.dhs.org>; from adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org on Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 06:34:56PM -0800 References: <20001029183443.A27388@sharmas.dhs.org>
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On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 06:34:56PM -0800, Arun Sharma wrote: [snip] > Can anyone please explain how to use softupdates and not pay the > long fsck penalty ? Yes, shutdown gracefully. There is no way around fsck'ing when the system is brought down hard. (Not absolutely true, but you dowanna mount an unclean FS.) Soft updates does _NOT_ guarantee that you will come out of such a nasty thing without damage. It does make it much less likely, however. Carefully read, /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/README For more information on what soft updates really does. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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