Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 20:13:12 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Softupdates on root in 4.5-RELEASE Message-ID: <20020305191312.GA1665@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20020305185203.F3F865D06@ptavv.es.net> References: <20020305152447.GA25206@swansea.cableinet.net> <20020305185203.F3F865D06@ptavv.es.net>
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On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 10:52:02AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > One point of clarification...while a system running with softupdates > does not REQUIRE an fsck to be safely returned to service, it does > need one at some point to free up unused blocks that are still marked > as in use. In V5.0 it is likely that background fsck will be > implemented so that you boot back up and get the system functioning > and then start fsck running in the background to get back deleted file > space. > That is what happens in -current, it's sort of spooky :) But a very *cool* idea... -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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