From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 14 19:40: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dell.dannyland.org (dell.dannyland.org [64.81.36.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7725C37B423 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 19:40:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyman@toldme.com) Received: by dell.dannyland.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7BC1E5BFE; Mon, 14 May 2001 19:39:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 19:39:26 -0700 From: dannyman To: Chris BeHanna Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: soft update should be default Message-ID: <20010514193926.G53429@dell.dannyland.org> References: <20010504213412.3ee36a4f.tadayuki@mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from behanna@zbzoom.net on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:39:51PM -0400 X-Loop: djhoward@uiuc.edu X-URL: http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:39:51PM -0400, Chris BeHanna wrote: > On Fri, 4 May 2001, Tadayuki OKADA wrote: [...] > > I've heard that it always keeps consistency. > > So you can skip fsck after the crash. > > #I don't know the detail, so please someone correct me if I'm wrong. > > I've had a number of crashes recently while trying to get my new > Thunderbird box up and running with the disk from my old box. I have > softupdates enabled on two partitions, yet they still fsck on the way > back up after a crash (and, at 18GB each, it takes awhile). Next time > I play games, I'm mounting them read-only first! Boot single-user, mount -f. You will still want to fsck, some day. I have a server with two .5TB partitions. I make their fstab entries "noauto" so if the machine does crash, it comes back up, and I can mount -f or fsck at my discretion. -danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message