From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Mar 29 17:24:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (winston.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.27.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5596537B71B for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 17:24:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.3/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2U1OMg84787; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 17:24:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) To: bakul@bitblocks.com Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Background Fsck In-Reply-To: <200103300053.TAA27553@thunderer.cnchost.com> References: <200103290522.VAA06966@beastie.mckusick.com> <200103300053.TAA27553@thunderer.cnchost.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010329172422V.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 17:24:22 -0800 From: Jordan Hubbard X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 9 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message