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Date:      Tue, 15 May 2001 12:12:16 +0800
From:      "David Xu" <bsddiy@163.net>
To:        "Matt Dillon" <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org>, "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>, "Terry Lambert" <tlambert@primenet.com>, "Kirk McKusick" <mckusick@mckusick.com>, "Mikhail Teterin" <mi@misha.privatelabs.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, "Ruslan Ermilov" <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re[2]: [kris@obsecurity.org: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc]
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Hello Matt,

Tuesday, May 15, 2001, 11:44:31 AM, you wrote:

MD>     I have to say, just IMHO, that as much as I like the concept of a
MD>     background fsck, I will never ever in my life use the feature.  I'll
MD>     use the snapshots, definitely.  But not the background fsck.  It
MD>     is plain and simply too dangerous, *especially* on large partitions where
MD>     one has a lot to lose if something goes wrong.  UFS just isn't designed
MD>     to be able to guarentee recovery, even if softupdates can't fail
MD>     theoretically.  We would need a log or journal to reach the safety
MD>     factor that something like XFS or ReiserFS can theoretically achieve.

Yes, I don't like background fsck too, it is too diffcult to manage,
I'll turn it off on my machine. a nice solution is a journal file
system.  when will FreeBSD have a journal file system?

-- 
Regards,
David Xu



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