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Subject: Re: UNEXPECTED SOFTUPDATES INCONSISTENCY
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Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> writes:

> 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?

Make sure you've disabled write caching on the drive firmware
itself... 

> The system is running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2

I hope you have read the Early Adopter's Guide:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2R/early-adopter.html