Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 12:14:33 +0100 From: Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How dangerous is 5.2 for production use Message-ID: <40110219.6050207@ant.uni-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <20040123102259.GA47759@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4010DF2B.1070804@ant.uni-bremen.de> <20040123091337.GA46755@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <4010EE2E.3050200@circlesquared.com> <20040123102259.GA47759@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:49:34AM +0000, Peter Risdon wrote: > >>Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > >>>Certainly. You will find it better suited to the large filesystems >>>you have than UFS1. I also have a vague feeling that background fsck >>>is a UFS2 feature, but I can't find documentation to either confirm or >>>deny that. > > >>I'm sure this is right. If one of my 5.* machines has an un-clean >>shutdown it states that it is starting background fsck checks as it >>completes its boot process. > > > Hmmm... After searching through any number of web pages, I must > conclude that background fsck(8) works on all versions of UFS on 5.x. > Conclusion drawn this way because if it didn't it would be documented > as not working, or there would be any number of messages on mailing > lists asking why doesn't it work? Also, background fsck(8) depends on > the 'snapshotting' feature of UFS, which comes out of the soft-updates > functionality definitely available in both UFS1 and UFS2. > > One of these days I really must get my hands on a 5.x system. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > I did some searching too and bgfsck does seem to be available for UFS. I'll install 5.2 on my machine today and test myself.. Heinrich
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