From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 29 19: 0:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 220C237B479 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 19:00:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com ([64.6.211.149]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Sun, 29 Oct 2000 18:59:08 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9U30Lo77400; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 19:00:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 19:00:21 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: Arun Sharma Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates and (avoiding) fsck Message-ID: <20001029190021.Z75251@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20001029183443.A27388@sharmas.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20001029183443.A27388@sharmas.dhs.org>; from adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org on Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 06:34:56PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 06:34:56PM -0800, Arun Sharma wrote: [snip] > Can anyone please explain how to use softupdates and not pay the > long fsck penalty ? Yes, shutdown gracefully. There is no way around fsck'ing when the system is brought down hard. (Not absolutely true, but you dowanna mount an unclean FS.) Soft updates does _NOT_ guarantee that you will come out of such a nasty thing without damage. It does make it much less likely, however. Carefully read, /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/README For more information on what soft updates really does. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message