From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 23 02:32:17 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 4460016A4CE for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 02:32:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F48543D1F for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 02:31:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) i0NAVcse048138 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:31:38 GMT (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id i0NAVcJX048137; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:31:38 GMT (envelope-from matthew) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:31:37 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman To: Roberto Pereyra Message-ID: <20040123103137.GB47759@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Roberto Pereyra , Heinrich Rebehn , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4010DF2B.1070804@ant.uni-bremen.de> <20040123102204.GA20702@gualeguaychu.gov.ar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="dc+cDN39EJAMEtIO" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040123102204.GA20702@gualeguaychu.gov.ar> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.62 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.62 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How dangerous is 5.2 for production use 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, 23 Jan 2004 10:32:17 -0000 --dc+cDN39EJAMEtIO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --dc+cDN39EJAMEtIO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAEPgJdtESqEQa7a0RAuwhAKCDRGOo7UpFbQ20GOvCMkfpL33zNACfSlgS ch9L5om2rFfgxMvLzfyJbyg= =0ZSX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dc+cDN39EJAMEtIO--