From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 18 17:45:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from out001pub.verizon.net (out001pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BB7837B416 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 17:45:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from bellatlantic.net (pool-151-198-135-96.mad.east.verizon.net [151.198.135.96]) by out001pub.verizon.net with ESMTP ; id fBJ1ixtT025572 Tue, 18 Dec 2001 19:45:00 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3C1FF11B.8F0C21FE@bellatlantic.net> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 20:44:59 -0500 From: Sergey Babkin Reply-To: babkin@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-19990626-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Nelson Cc: Mike Bristow , "Brandon D. Valentine" , 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 ) References: <200112130608.fBD689K49906@apollo.backplane.com> <20011213043851.Y56723-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <20011218120531.A97576@lindt.urgle.com> <20011218184413.GB57822@dan.emsphone.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dan Nelson wrote: > > 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 By the way the journaling filesystems don't neccessary guarantee that you won't need fsck: for example, if VXFS crashes at a particularly bad moment, it will require you to do "fsck -o full" which is as slow as the fsck on traditional UFS. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message