From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 12 01:44:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA25037 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 01:44:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA25032 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 01:44:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA05292; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 01:44:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 01:44:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Jaspal Kohli cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: soft updates and fsck In-Reply-To: <35A6327A.30907FFB@best.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Jaspal Kohli wrote: > Do soft updates result in any speedup of post-crash recovery (fsck) or > does it > still have to do a full check of the filesystem? The FS stil has to be checked if not clean, but softupdates doesn't leave all the droppings that a crashed async FS will leave -- generally the fsck comes back clean. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message