From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 12 18: 1:18 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 291E037B406 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:01:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE15643FAF for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:01:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-a152.otenet.gr [212.205.215.152]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1D2194A027047 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 04:01:09 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1D2101G002612 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 04:01:09 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h1D0j6Pt001453; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 02:45:06 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 02:45:06 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Heinrich Rebehn Cc: Bill Moran , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: fsck takes very long after crash/reset Message-ID: <20030213004506.GA1355@gothmog.gr> References: <3E4A5B77.5080103@ant.uni-bremen.de> <3E4A863E.2030801@potentialtech.com> <3E4A8EF5.1070308@ant.uni-bremen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E4A8EF5.1070308@ant.uni-bremen.de> 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 2003-02-12 19:14, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: >Bill Moran wrote: >>Heinrich Rebehn wrote: >>>I operate a FreeBSD server with a 300GB Raid. This morning i had to >>>hard reset it and when booting, fsck took some 20 minutes. >>>[...] >>>Also, some weeks ago, we had missing files after a crash/fsck. >> >>Soft-updates will do that if the system crashes in the middle of >>writes. > > I have read several times that soft updates ensure that the fs is > always in a consistent state? When a file isn't fully written on the hard disk, a "consistent state" of the filesystem is one that doesn't include half-finished updates. What would you prefer? A half-finished file that possibly includes garbage, or a consistent filesystem? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message