Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 21:57:33 -0500 From: Bobby Walker <bobbyjwalker@live.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File system Message-ID: <BLU0-SMTP88023B888DBB974F2A7FE6BBF80@phx.gbl> In-Reply-To: <u2z768631271005081836k26590481qcaab03601799448d@mail.gmail.com> References: <u2z768631271005081836k26590481qcaab03601799448d@mail.gmail.com>
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On May 8, 2010, at 8:36 PM, Ansar Mohammed wrote: > Hello All, > I have a FreeBSD VM running. Whenever I reboot the VM without a clean > shutdown it boots into single user mode and I have to run fsck. >=20 > When I run fsck, the file system clearly has issues. >=20 > Is there any way to have FreeBSD run on a better file system that wont = crap > out on me everytime I do and unclean shutdown? > _______________________________________________ > 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" >=20 I am far from an expert on this topic, but under what situation is it = good to take any OS down suddenly? Is this an unavoidable event of some = sort? If this is a timed event, that happens on a regular basis, then you = should be able to issue a timed shutdown prior to that so that the = operating system goes down cleanly. Any file system that is taken down abruptly, repeatedly will see = degradation. Databases and open files, not to mention any data that is = being written from/to the hard disk are all meant to be taken down and = cleared out properly. I'm not certain that a different file system is the solution, it might = just be a band-aid on the greater problem, which is eliminating the = sudden power loss that's simulated by shutting off a VM. -- Bobby=
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