From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 21 5:21: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A67DE37B422 for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 05:20:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f4LCHfk21142; Mon, 21 May 2001 08:17:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B0907CD.F3FFA86C@iowna.com> Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 08:19:25 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Micke Josefsson Cc: Edmond Wong , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Auto-shutdown Function References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Micke Josefsson wrote: > On the other hand the file system repair program (fsck) does a very good job and > generally (every time?) brings the system up and running without manual > intervention. Only when disks have been physically damaged have I needed to > manually interact. Perhaps I am just lucky. Between softupdates and fsck, crash recovery is very good, but don't count on it. I've (very occasionally) had systems crash under heavy disk load and sometimes the disk is scrambled enough to lose data. Usually it comes back OK, but not always. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message