Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 00:56:53 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com> To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Cc: <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: background fsck Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32L2.0105180053460.50087-100000@shell-2.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <200105180531.f4I5VoI86453@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
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<cc list trimed.> On Thu, 17 May 2001, David Wolfskill wrote: :(I see it does want the file system clean when soft updates is enabled, :but doesn't check for that for a disable request.) : Right. fsck(8) can make assumptions about the state of the filesystem if it knows that softupdates were in use. (There's a smaller set of possible inconsistancies, but I don't remember what they are.) It's safe for fsck to assume that the filesystem could be in worse shape than it actually is, but not safe to assume it's cleaner. David -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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