Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:52:33 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> To: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Locked Up Message-ID: <20040213115233.4bfa8c14@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <20040213092856.GB2387@alzatex.com> References: <20040213092856.GB2387@alzatex.com>
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On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:28:57 -0800 "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> 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
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