Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 07:31:52 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Background Fsck Message-ID: <200103300631.f2U6Vq042781@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com> of "Thu, 29 Mar 2001 21:47:32 -0800." <200103300547.VAA09139@beastie.mckusick.com>
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> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 21:30:29 -0800
> From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
> Cc: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Background Fsck
>
> * Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> [010329 21:14] wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 08:20:30PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Wouldn't just moving it to pass 2 take care of that?
>
> I don't know.
>
> I'm saying that if there's something in here that makes doing on
> / not possible because of Kirk's preference (even though it's
> technically possible) I hope he reconsiders.
>
> If it's not technically possible then we'll live with it.
>
> --
> -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
> Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
> start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.
>
> Background checking the root is possible. The only reason to exclude
> it was because people are not yet comfortable with entrusting their
> root to a background check. Since most roots are small, the foreground
> fsck time is minimal. It would be possible to make background chacking
> of the root happen by default and have the administrator add the `F'
> flag to the passno if they wanted to force a background check.
^^^^
fore
> Kirk
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