Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:32:26 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> To: Jason Arnaute <non_secure@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for a graceful way to disable BG fsck ? Message-ID: <45E5CABA.8070105@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <629647.7934.qm@web51004.mail.yahoo.com> References: <629647.7934.qm@web51004.mail.yahoo.com>
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On 02/28/07 10:18, Jason Arnaute wrote: > --- Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> wrote: > > >> How about setting something like this: >> background_fsck_delay="864000" >> >> in /etc/rc.conf? That would make bg fsck wait 10 >> days before running. >> That will still mount the disks rw though, which is >> probably not what >> you really want. > > > Thanks - this may be the most useful way to do this. > > But you're right - it's not exactly what I want ... > provided that the critical filesystems are already > clean (all I have are /, /var, and (bulk_data)) I wish > it would just come up and say: > > "if they're clean, mount them and be happy. If > they're not, just _don't mount them_. Just don't do > anything. You've got your / and /var, so just be > happy and wait for someone to manually bring up > (bulk_data)" > > The reason this would work is that / and /var _always_ > get foreground fsck'd before the system can go > multi-user anyway ... so they are always safe ... You could work up a patch to the rc* stuff (plus maybe a few other tools) that would allow a new FSTAB_** define that means just that. Eric
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