From owner-cvs-all Mon May 14 9:33:34 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from cheddar.netmonger.net (cheddar.netmonger.net [209.54.21.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFFF937B42C; Mon, 14 May 2001 09:33:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@cheddar.netmonger.net) Received: (from chris@localhost) by cheddar.netmonger.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA26934; Mon, 14 May 2001 12:32:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20010514123233.A23290@netmonger.net> Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 12:32:34 -0400 From: Christopher Masto To: Robert Watson , Kirk McKusick Cc: Mikhail Teterin , Kris Kennaway , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, Ruslan Ermilov , fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [kris@obsecurity.org: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc] References: <200105132342.QAA21879@beastie.mckusick.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Robert Watson on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:41:06AM -0400 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:41:06AM -0400, Robert Watson wrote: > I.e., if you've accepted that soft updates is pretty correctly > implemented, and that your hardware is moderately correct, this scenario > is unlikely to occur, and if it does, you're up a creek anyway. One thing > that would be nice to see, feature-wise, is a: > > BACKGROUND_FSCK="NO" # enable/disable background fscking at boot > > style of entry in rc.conf, with a default of "YES" I think that's a good idea. I had the same thought this morning, envisioning a co-lo scenario where one might not want to accidentally go home while an fsck is still running. (I know, there are various reasons a problem like that is extremely unlikely, but a bit of paranoia is a good thing in sysadmins). A global option like that in a place that's frequently checked when configuring a machine seems sensible. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message