From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 28 3:53:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cr31617-a.lndn1.on.wave.home.com (cr31617-a.lndn1.on.wave.home.com [24.112.227.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C570150C1 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 03:53:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jbailie@cr31617-a.lndn1.on.wave.home.com) Received: (from jbailie@localhost) by cr31617-a.lndn1.on.wave.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA00723 for questions@freeBSD.org; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 07:04:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jbailie) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 07:04:02 -0500 From: James Bailie To: questions@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: softupdates and fsck Message-ID: <19991228070402.A681@cr31617-a.lndn1.on.wave.home.co> References: <199912271337.FAA14591@netcom.com> <3867EE89.D806A0B7@bellsouth.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE" X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3867EE89.D806A0B7@bellsouth.net>; from otterr@bellsouth.net on Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 10:56:09PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 10:56:09PM +0000, Otter wrote: > You'll find that softupdates makes the filesystem a little more forgiving= =20 > in the event you should have one of those unclean shutdowns.=20 What do you mean by more forgiving? No fsck on reboot? If this is the case, is it more forgiving, or is the OS merely fooled into thinking the file system is clean, when there may be uncommitted buffered changes? --=20 James Bailie =20 http://members.home.net/jazzturk =20 --0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE4aKcx0Fh9wojXfzIRActcAKCNzBCvj3jxRDZOlhHBq5QLrS5IGQCeNuEs 7NC693o2RaaFxDiJnn/ZfiY= =aQHn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message