From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 18 03:56:40 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 0F63616A4CF for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 03:56:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.romat.com (mail.romat.com [212.143.245.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C3C343D2D for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 03:56:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gilad_bsd@romat.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.lan [127.0.0.1]) by mail.romat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E96EEEB2B2; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:56:34 +0200 (IST) Received: from mail.romat.com ([192.168.1.10]) by localhost (ladon.lan [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 40216-07; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:56:33 +0200 (IST) Received: from romat.com (unknown [192.168.1.199]) by mail.romat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D4A3EB2A9; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:56:33 +0200 (IST) Message-ID: <400A7352.7020101@romat.com> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:51:46 +0200 From: Gilad Rom Organization: Romat Telecom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rickard Dahlstrand References: <007701c3ddaf$8c58f000$8b01010a@nyalaptopen> In-Reply-To: <007701c3ddaf$8c58f000$8b01010a@nyalaptopen> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cutting the power without unmounting the filesystem 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: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 11:56:40 -0000 Rickard Dahlstrand wrote: > Hi, > > I have a computer that will have it's power removed quite often. In other word It will not unmount the file system. What kind of implications does this have in the long term? > > I have discovered that the start-up takes much longer because of having to clean the file system. Is there a way to prevent this and what harm can cutting the power have on the system? > > I know of some installations that use read-only mounting. Is it possible to mount / RO and /etc and /var RW? Will that speed up the boot process? > > Best Regards, Rickard. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > 5.2 has background fsck - I don't know if its going to fix all of the problems that cutting the power is going to introduce, but Its going to speed up your boot sequence for sure. Gilad.