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Date:      Mon, 11 Apr 2005 19:31:15 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Softupdates not preventing lengthy fsck
Message-ID:  <20050412003114.GD284@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050411234512.GA23344@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20050411234512.GA23344@xor.obsecurity.org>

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In the last episode (Apr 11), Kris Kennaway said:
> I'm seeing the following problem: on 6.0 machines which have had a lot
> of FS activity in the past but are currently quiet, an unclean reboot
> will require an hour or more of fscking and will end up clearing
> thousands of inodes:

This might be expected behaviour if the previous boot tried to do a
bgfsck and failed.  It should set a flag forcing a full fsck on the
next boot, which will clear out the half-committed inodes from the
previous crash.  I see it often on 5.*.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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