From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 18 17:47: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [216.33.66.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77B9C37B405; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 17:47:00 -0800 (PST) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 1EE8781D01; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 19:47:00 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 19:47:00 -0600 From: Alfred Perlstein To: babkin@freebsd.org Cc: Dan Nelson , 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 ) Message-ID: <20011218194700.S59831@elvis.mu.org> References: <200112130608.fBD689K49906@apollo.backplane.com> <20011213043851.Y56723-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <20011218120531.A97576@lindt.urgle.com> <20011218184413.GB57822@dan.emsphone.com> <3C1FF11B.8F0C21FE@bellatlantic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C1FF11B.8F0C21FE@bellatlantic.net>; from babkin@bellatlantic.net on Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 08:44:59PM -0500 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 * Sergey Babkin [011218 19:45] wrote: > 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. Yeah, but that's not mentioned in the whitepaper! :) -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message