From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 11 16:55:16 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0DFDA4BA for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2014 16:55:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C0E26246A for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2014 16:55:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-111-1.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.111.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B2F023CE24; Mon, 11 Aug 2014 18:55:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id s7BGtD2a004388; Mon, 11 Aug 2014 18:55:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 18:55:13 +0200 From: Polytropon To: RW Subject: Re: operation not permitted on entropy file Message-Id: <20140811185513.8977b5a9.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20140811175019.7109d5d2@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <20140810070239.GA80734@home.parts-unknown.org> <20140810103119.GA26958@slackbox.erewhon.home> <20140810124433.da498898.freebsd@edvax.de> <20140810224038.GD24036@home.parts-unknown.org> <20140811101822.41851cc7.freebsd@edvax.de> <20140811142707.GA10186@home.parts-unknown.org> <20140811171653.b7c60e58.freebsd@edvax.de> <20140811175019.7109d5d2@gumby.homeunix.com> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 16:55:16 -0000 On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 17:50:19 +0100, RW wrote: > On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 17:16:53 +0200 > Polytropon wrote: > > > On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:52:00 -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > > > Try fsck'ing a nearly full TB FS on a production box that has had a > > > dirty unmount and you will begin to appreciate the adventure a bit > > > more. > > > > I prefer appreciating my precious data. :-) > > > > No, honestly: On production systems, this might be an issue > > (which should be resolved by appropriate countermeasures, as > > we're probably talking about mission-critical systems), but > > for home systems, it surely isn't that bad. I'm saying this > > from my very individual experience of having fsck work on > > a nearly full 1 TB disk several times a week, in worst cases, > > few times a day. And I don't even care that it takes more > > than 10 minutes, as it makes sure my data is safe. > > It depends on your hardware, it used to take several hours on my last > PC. Admittedly it was testing sequentially with a full fsck (run from a > script that mounts my geli partitions) and it was cpu limited in > geli. With parallel processing enabled in the CPU (multicore and HT), things can go faster. Having SATA also helps. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...