Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:54:28 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: Juan Rodriguez Hervella <jrh@it.uc3m.es> Cc: ticso@cicely.de Subject: Re: Why doesn't background fsck work ? Message-ID: <20030618155427.GR3626@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <200306181751.01998.jrh@it.uc3m.es> References: <200306181654.45249.jrh@it.uc3m.es> <20030618153935.GP3626@cicely12.cicely.de> <200306181751.01998.jrh@it.uc3m.es>
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 05:51:00PM +0200, Juan Rodriguez Hervella wrote: > On Wednesday 18 June 2003 17:39, Bernd Walter wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:54:44PM +0200, Juan Rodriguez Hervella wrote: > > > Hello!: > > > > > > I tried to make my Nvidia video card work yesterday, and everytime > > > I launched the X system my computer hang up. So I had to > > > make a hard reboot. > > > (I think I will fix the Xs problem this night at home) > > > > > > But I've got another weird problem. :) > > > > > > The fsck of my partitions is always made on the foregroud, > > > although I've heard about something like a delayed/background > > > file system checker. > > > > > > Why is it always made on the foreground ? > > > > No softupdates enabled? > > yes, you've got it ! > > I haven't got softupdates enabled, but I didn't want to enable it, > because I've heard that it isn't 100% reliable and I didn't want to lose > data.... Softupdates works reliable from what I can tell. Snapshots might have some issues and background fsck uses snapshots. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de ticso@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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