Date: 21 Feb 2004 16:50:02 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UNEXPECTED SOFTUPDATES INCONSISTENCY Message-ID: <44n07c85md.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <4037A0BB.8030807@ant.uni-bremen.de> References: <4037A0BB.8030807@ant.uni-bremen.de>
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Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> writes: > I have had the above error 2 times now during fsck after an unclean > shutdown. fsck -y yielded tons of entries in lost+found. > man (7) tuning says that softupdates guarantees filesystem consistency > in case of crash, but thousands of lost files tell a different story. > Did i miss anything? Or should i disable softupdates for important data? Make sure you've disabled write caching on the drive firmware itself... > The system is running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 I hope you have read the Early Adopter's Guide: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2R/early-adopter.html
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