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Date:      Thu, 29 Mar 2001 17:24:22 -0800
From:      Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
To:        bakul@bitblocks.com
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Background Fsck 
Message-ID:  <20010329172422V.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200103300053.TAA27553@thunderer.cnchost.com>
References:  <200103290522.VAA06966@beastie.mckusick.com> <200103300053.TAA27553@thunderer.cnchost.com>

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> Dumb question time.  Why would I want to run a background
> fsck on an active filesystem? One wouldn't mount an unsafe
> filesystem in the first place.  Perhaps you are talking about

That's what the whole snapshot mechanism in softupdates is about.  You
can fsck and reconcile a filesystem's contents while it's mounted and
active.

- Jordan

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