From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Mar 29 20:20:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A08A37B71D for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 20:20:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f2U4KUT08398; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 20:20:30 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 20:20:30 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Kirk McKusick Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Background Fsck Message-ID: <20010329202028.S9431@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200103290522.VAA06966@beastie.mckusick.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200103290522.VAA06966@beastie.mckusick.com>; from mckusick@mckusick.com on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:22:10PM -0800 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Kirk McKusick [010329 00:10] wrote: > I now have the capability in fsck_ffs to run a background fsck on an > active filesystem. The question is how to deploy this capability in > the system. I have discussed how best to deploy it with several folks > and have put together the following proposal. I am now soliciting > input from the larger `arch' audience. k, thnx :) > Also, anything listed as passno 1 will always be > done in foreground (which principally means that the root will > always be done in foreground). It will still be necessary to have > the `2F' designation rather than just using a passno of 1 to indicate > foreground checking because everything marked pass 1 is done > serially. Well, even though most common sense says not to make a giant /, people still do this, especially people coming from Linux. It would be good to be able to background check / if at all possible. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Represent yourself, show up at BABUG http://www.babug.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message