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Date:      Tue, 18 Dec 2001 12:44:13 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Mike Bristow <mike@urgle.com>
Cc:        "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Found NFS data corruption bug... (was Re: NFS: How to make FreeBSD fall on its face in one easy step )
Message-ID:  <20011218184413.GB57822@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011218120531.A97576@lindt.urgle.com>
References:  <200112130608.fBD689K49906@apollo.backplane.com> <20011213043851.Y56723-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <20011218120531.A97576@lindt.urgle.com>

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In the last episode (Dec 18), Mike Bristow said:
> I suspect that the background fsck[1] that's available in FreeBSD-current
> fits the bill just as well as JFS or XFS - and I'll also bet that it'll
> be available in a FreeBSD-release before I'd trust data to a port of
> JFS or XFS.

The problems with a background fsck is you still have to run fsck,
which can take 10 minutes on a large volume when it's idle, and who
knows how long as a background process when the system's up.  It might
not even finish at all if a user starts modifying a large file, causing
the snapshot file that the background fsck is using to grow and fill up
the filesystem.  Unlikely, but possible if your disk is almost full
already.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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