Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:51:46 +0200 From: Gilad Rom <gilad_bsd@romat.com> To: Rickard Dahlstrand <rd@tilde.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cutting the power without unmounting the filesystem Message-ID: <400A7352.7020101@romat.com> In-Reply-To: <007701c3ddaf$8c58f000$8b01010a@nyalaptopen> References: <007701c3ddaf$8c58f000$8b01010a@nyalaptopen>
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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.
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