From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Mar 29 22:27:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [194.222.196.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3E3C37B718 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 22:27:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f2U6RI800484; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 07:27:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f2U6Vq042781; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 07:31:52 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200103300631.f2U6Vq042781@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Kirk McKusick Cc: Alfred Perlstein , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Background Fsck In-Reply-To: Message from Kirk McKusick of "Thu, 29 Mar 2001 21:47:32 -0800." <200103300547.VAA09139@beastie.mckusick.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 07:31:52 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 21:30:29 -0800 > From: Alfred Perlstein > To: Brooks Davis > Cc: Kirk McKusick , arch@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Background Fsck > > * Brooks Davis [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 -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message