Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:31:37 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Roberto Pereyra <rjpereyra@gualeguaychu.gov.ar> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How dangerous is 5.2 for production use Message-ID: <20040123103137.GB47759@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040123102204.GA20702@gualeguaychu.gov.ar> References: <4010DF2B.1070804@ant.uni-bremen.de> <20040123102204.GA20702@gualeguaychu.gov.ar>
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On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 07:22:04AM -0300, Roberto Pereyra wrote:
>=20
> > However the fsck of our 300+500 GB RAIDs=20
> > takes almost an hour and that's why i want to switch to 5.x because it=
=20
> > fscks in the background.
> FreeBSD 4.9 can fsck in the background too, look /etc/defaults/rc.conf
>=20
> Set in /etc/rc.conf
>=20
> fsck_y_enable=3D"YES"
No it cannot. There is no capability to do *background* fsck(8) in
4.x. 'fsck_y_enable' doesn't have anything to do with operating in
the background or not. What that means is that 'fsck -y' will be run
automatically if the initial 'fsck -p' fails. All that 'fsck -y'
implies is that fsck will assume you answer 'y' to any of the queries
it prints out. None of this will happen in the background under 4.x
-- ie. you will have to wait for all of the fsck(8)ing to finish
before any filesystems are mounted and any other software gets started
up.
Cheers,
Matthew
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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
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