Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:20:42 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9.0 install and journaling Message-ID: <20111210122042.2b355bc6@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20111210114053.GA69009@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: <4EE32BB6.3020105@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20111210114053.GA69009@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk>
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On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:40:53 +0000 Frank Shute wrote: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 07:51:50PM +1000, R Skinner wrote: > > possibly could, but it escaped me as to how. And before I do- I > > looked up journaling on 9. I couldn't quite get to the bottom of > > whether it is or isn't available/standard, or how to determine its > > happening. I'm only interested because of unexpected > > shutdowns/battery dead on the laptop- I also have 500G which is a > > while to wait for fsck. Speed I'd like, but I have to consider > > system integrity first. > I'm unfamiliar with the new bsdinstaller but AFAIK it sets up a UFS2 > filesystem for you. > > This comes with background fsck and softupdates which achieve the > objective of not having to wait for a lengthy foreground fsck if you > don't shutdown your laptop cleanly. > > > but to be honest, I wouldn't bother in your position: it's just more > stuff to go wrong for no appreciable gain to you. 9.0 also supports soft-update journalling which eliminates the background fsck. If you don't know whether it's on or not you can run tunefs -p / If it's not on then tunefs can turn it on, but you will presumably need to reboot into single user mode.
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