Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 17:37:09 -0500 From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> To: Esa Karkkainen <ejk@iki.fi> Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> Subject: Re: 5.1-R-p11 unable to "sync disks" when shutting down Message-ID: <16371.20373.212950.533985@canoe.dclg.ca> In-Reply-To: <20031231073244.GA44710@pp.htv.fi> References: <20031229164130.GA797@pp.htv.fi> <16370.20382.81302.449649@canoe.dclg.ca> <20031231073244.GA44710@pp.htv.fi>
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>>>>> "Esa" == Esa Karkkainen <ejk@iki.fi> writes:
Esa> No, I don't use snapshots any more. I did use snapshots via
Esa> bgfsck, but now I have disabled bgfsck, because for some reason I
Esa> got panics which seemed to be related to bgfsck.
I think it would be _very_ helpful if bgfsck could be made to only run
once. Currently, you can have the following:
crash -> boot -> defer for bgfsck -> multiuser -> bgfsck -> crash
(loop until manual intervention)
... this happens when bgfsck can't fix something. I'd like to see:
crash -> boot -> defer for bgfsck (but mark disk as having tried)
-> multiuser -> bgfsck -> crash -> boot -> fsck in foreground
-> multiuser
... but I believe this would require fsck support unless the startup
scripts were writing to the filesystem to indicate no bgfsck.
Dave.
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