From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Apr 16 18:42: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32A1637B423; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 18:42:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@earth.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f3H1ft887670; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 18:41:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 18:41:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200104170141.f3H1ft887670@earth.backplane.com> To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Kirk McKusick , Robert Watson , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Background Fsck References: <200104162353.QAA55416@beastie.mckusick.com> <20010416181708.P976@fw.wintelcom.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :> the /dev filesystem cannot handle advisory file locks, so some serious :> work would be needed there first. If only background fsck is considered :> to be an issue, then an flock could be held on the mount point directory. :> This latter approach seems half baked to me, so I am not inclined to do it. : :Actually Terry Lambert has some really old patches that make flock on :just about any vnode backed fd work. : :Do we want this? I think I can re-forward-port his delta to achieve this. : :-- :-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] It makes sense. I think Linux does this and it definitely seems useful. Anyone know about Solaris? -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message