From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 13 01:50:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD14D16A4CE for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:50:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from rdsnet.ro (smtp.rdsnet.ro [62.231.74.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C614643D39 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:50:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from itetcu@apropo.ro) Received: (qmail 545 invoked from network); 13 Feb 2004 09:50:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro) (81.196.25.19) by mail.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 13 Feb 2004 09:50:50 -0000 Received: from it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (localhost.buh.cameradicommercio.ro [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with SMTP id 02C734C; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:52:33 +0200 (EET) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:52:33 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: "Loren M. Lang" Message-Id: <20040213115233.4bfa8c14@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <20040213092856.GB2387@alzatex.com> References: <20040213092856.GB2387@alzatex.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD Mailing list Subject: Re: FreeBSD Locked Up X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 09:50:52 -0000 On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:28:57 -0800 "Loren M. Lang" wrote: [..] > Also, on reboot, I notice fsck took a considerable time to check the > disk, though nothing major was found that interrupted the boot process. > Is this because FreeBSD doesn't use a journalling filesystem? I think I > read somewhere that FreeBSD chose to use a filesystem with soft updates > over a journalling one because it provides relatively equal data integrity > compared to a journalling one, but is more efficient with the order of > writing data, but does this mean that FreeBSD will always take longer to > recover from a crash? No, usually it is shorter. It all depends on how bad the fs state is and the free space (for fsck's snapshot). -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user