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Date:      Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:01:53 +0200
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
To:        Andrew Snow <andrew@modulus.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fsck_y_enable: suboptimal/odd?
Message-ID:  <496C82B1.9030604@icyb.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <496BE193.4070807@modulus.org>
References:  <496B3E28.3070902@icyb.net.ua> <496BE193.4070807@modulus.org>

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on 13/01/2009 02:34 Andrew Snow said the following:
> Andriy Gapon wrote:
> 
>> To me it seems like fsck_y passes suboptimal flags to fsck, it doesn't
>> have to examine each and every filesystem in fstab.
> 
> I think think this is because it does a quick check first to see if it
> can run the fsck in background after boot into multi-user mode.
> 
> If it cannot, then fsck exits and is re-run with fsck -y and runs in
> foreground mode.

True, I do not have softupdates enabled and I also have bg fsck
explicietely prohibited. Still I do not understand why clean filesystems
have to be checked.

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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