From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 20 18:44: 1 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 D78D737B401 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 18:43:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.acd.net (smtp.acd.net [207.179.64.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B189343FBD for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 18:43:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from taxman@ACD.NET) Received: from 207.179.85.31 ([207.179.85.31]) by smtp.acd.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Thu, 20 Mar 2003 21:43:43 -0500 From: taxman To: "John Straiton" , "'Andy Farkas'" Subject: Re: Question about background FSCK Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 21:15:35 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: References: <002401c2ee27$304245a0$1916c60a@win2k.clickcom.com> In-Reply-To: <002401c2ee27$304245a0$1916c60a@win2k.clickcom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303192113.46916.taxman@acd.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Mar 2003 02:43:44.0115 (UTC) FILETIME=[B06E7C30:01C2EF53] 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 Wednesday 19 March 2003 09:52 am, John Straiton wrote: > Thanks for the idea. While I'm not against the idea of the disk dying, > this is reproduceable quite reliably. Foreground fsck -y in single user > mode works in about 2 minutes (for the 119GB slice) flawlessly every > time and background fsck always hangs the machine. > > Additionally, the machine is about a week old Dell Poweredge 1650. While > we all know new != works, it's less likely than a machine with a hard > drive that's been in there awhile. > > Unless there's something radically different about how fsck works in > those two fashions, I'm going to assume the reproducability and the fact > that I'm having similar problems on two totally different machines in > different setups (IDE vs SCSI, P4 vs P3, Dell vs HP) means that a dying > disk is not the problem I'm having. > > So I ask the list again: Is there a way to disable the background > checking of disks? Others gave that answer, but if you want to help solve the problem, try running -current. But read a lot in the appropriate handbook chapter before doing so. Then ask on -current mailing list. Reproducible problems are very much what the developers are looking for in order to improve the system. But who knows, it may already be fixed in -current. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message