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Date:      Tue, 18 Dec 2001 20:44:59 -0500
From:      Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        Mike Bristow <mike@urgle.com>, "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Found NFS data corruption bug... (was Re: NFS: How to make FreeBSD  fall on its face in one easy step )
Message-ID:  <3C1FF11B.8F0C21FE@bellatlantic.net>
References:  <200112130608.fBD689K49906@apollo.backplane.com> <20011213043851.Y56723-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <20011218120531.A97576@lindt.urgle.com> <20011218184413.GB57822@dan.emsphone.com>

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Dan Nelson wrote:
> 
> In the last episode (Dec 18), Mike Bristow said:
> > I suspect that the background fsck[1] that's available in FreeBSD-current
> > fits the bill just as well as JFS or XFS - and I'll also bet that it'll
> > be available in a FreeBSD-release before I'd trust data to a port of
> > JFS or XFS.
> 
> The problems with a background fsck is you still have to run fsck,
> which can take 10 minutes on a large volume when it's idle, and who

By the way the journaling filesystems don't neccessary guarantee that 
you won't need fsck: for example, if VXFS crashes at a particularly
bad moment, it will require you to do "fsck -o full" which is as slow
as the fsck on traditional UFS.

-SB

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