Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 15:22:32 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: "J.D. Bronson" <jbronson@wixb.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more on fsck with securelevel Message-ID: <20040604222232.GB25234@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <6.1.1.1.2.20040604170255.00bf3b38@cheyenne.wixb.com> References: <6.1.1.1.2.20040604170255.00bf3b38@cheyenne.wixb.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 05:05:34PM -0500, J.D. Bronson wrote: > I did set this in /etc/rc.conf: > fsck_y_enable="YES" > > But I was wondering if this might be a good idea too: > (looking at the defaults) > > fsck_y_enable="NO" # Set to YES to do fsck -y if the initial preen > fails. > background_fsck="YES" # Attempt to run fsck in the background where > possible. > background_fsck_delay="60" # Time to wait (seconds) before starting the > fsck. > > ..might it not be prudent to set 'background_fsck="NO"' when running in > secure mode? > > Eventhough I shut down carefully, sometimes it still feels the need to run > fsck (even with soft updates)...but when running securelevel, is it > actually going to accomplish anything? I think just setting background_fsck_delay=0 may allow bgfsck to work. Once fsck has opened the FS, I think it should keep it open and writes should work. I'm not 100% sure of that though. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAwPYnXY6L6fI4GtQRAt16AKC5TTVlz+oklnD4Mk2YIKe5b2T4wgCgsuZY Nf08dEIFqZfEwTlI/y/uwjI= =WFkV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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