From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 5 11:13:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post-11.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DE7137B41B for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 11:13:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-11.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16iKN7-000306-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2002 19:13:13 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id BC78E13040 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 20:13:12 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id 418C222593; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 20:13:12 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 20:13:12 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Softupdates on root in 4.5-RELEASE Message-ID: <20020305191312.GA1665@raggedclown.net> References: <20020305152447.GA25206@swansea.cableinet.net> <20020305185203.F3F865D06@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020305185203.F3F865D06@ptavv.es.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message