From owner-cvs-all Tue May 15 5:24:46 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from bilver.wjv.com (dhcp-1-218.n01.orldfl01.us.ra.verio.net [157.238.210.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F3D437B42C; Tue, 15 May 2001 05:24:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@bilver.wjv.com) Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.wjv.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f4FCLfs45711; Tue, 15 May 2001 08:21:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bill) Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 08:21:41 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: dillon@earth.backplane.com, kris@obsecurity.org, grog@lemis.com, tlambert@primenet.com, mckusick@mckusick.com, mi@misha.privatelabs.com, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, ru@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [kris@obsecurity.org: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc] Message-ID: <20010515082141.C45443@wjv.com> Reply-To: bv@wjv.com References: <20010515120558.M59553@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010514202707.B93481@xor.obsecurity.org> <200105150344.f4F3iVI45699@earth.backplane.com> <20010514205836B.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010514205836B.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@osd.bsdi.com on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:58:36PM -0700 Organization: W.J.Vermillion / Orlando - Winter Park Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:58:36PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard thus sprach: > From: Matt Dillon > Subject: Re: [kris@obsecurity.org: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc] > Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 20:44:31 -0700 (PDT) > > I have to say, just IMHO, that as much as I like the concept > > of a background fsck, I will never ever in my life use the > > feature. I'll > Well, there are fscks and there are fscks. It's my impression that > *all* a background fsck on a snapshot will ever do is return free > blocks to the freelist. That's it. It won't do any one of the dozens > of other crazy things you've probably seen fsck do in cleaning up a > badly scrogged filesystem and hence your fear, unless I'm smoking some > unusually strong crack, is likely unwarranted. I agree. It's the 'fail-safe' approach. On older slower Sys V based 'thingys' I've worked with in the past we'd run fsck -S from cron nightly. That just rebuilt the free list IF and ONLY IF everything else was perfectly ok. -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message