From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 21 09:23:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C760916A4D4 for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 09:23:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de (antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de [134.102.176.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9097C43D1D for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 09:23:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de) Received: from europa.ant.uni-bremen.de ([134.102.176.10] helo=ant.uni-bremen.de) by antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de with esmtp (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1Auaqk-0000Ha-Np for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 18:23:34 +0100 Message-ID: <4037A0BB.8030807@ant.uni-bremen.de> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 18:17:31 +0000 From: Heinrich Rebehn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: UNEXPECTED SOFTUPDATES INCONSISTENCY X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 17:23:35 -0000 Hi list, I have had the above error 2 times now during fsck after an unclean shutdown. fsck -y yielded tons of entries in lost+found. man (7) tuning says that softupdates guarantees filesystem consistency in case of crash, but thousands of lost files tell a different story. Did i miss anything? Or should i disable softupdates for important data? The system is running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 Cheers, Heinrich -- Heinrich Rebehn University of Bremen Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering - Department of Telecommunications - Phone : +49/421/218-4664 Fax : -3341